Carrie Grant: I no longer have three daughters.

I am positive this family is cyclically in the media - a bigger story/update comes out regularly with new updates.

I only hope all 4 children and parents are receiving the appropriate mental health care.

Three girls. Some with problems they aren't really coping with. This isn't enough. So they adopt a boy. Not a girl. A boy. Who brings violence to the family. Daughters are autistic and not coping.

It's like a tick box exercise in things you'd expect to find in a family like this... And not in a good way.

They ‘sell’ their family, using their children to maintain a public profile. I can see the attraction of going along with trans for them, and why when one chid is given extra attention for this it becomes even more attractive to the others.
But three children with severe mental health difficulties and one so violent as to have guards suggests they have not meet their children’s needs as well as they think they have.

I read the times magazine article on them the other week and likewise I was thinking ??!!!especially as they went on to adopt another child with even more severe needs…I don’t know why they didn’t consider their own birth children’s needs before they went on to adopt another.

If you didn’t know who the parents were, and didn’t already think they were nice people just trying their best, and you read a thread on here about a neighbours cousins family where there were 4 children who all have such severe mental health issues (outbursts, child on parent abuse where the parents has required a hospital stay and suicide attempts) and such low self esteem (all trans/non binary) you would wonder how awful their childhood would have been.

Not unusual where families are dealing with neurodivergence and or attachment issues, and fits theories of social contagion / reinforcement factors of social transition.