If you think Julia Hollander was , ahem, ^interesting^ what do you think of this story?

[Twiglett]

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=554769&in_page_id=1879

I skin read that earlier and just felt realy sorry for all invovled. Ss did seem to abandon the family and they try and turn the tables on them when things got tough.

What i meant to say was that I skimmed over it earlier, not skin read it.

Dreadful photograph they chose to accompany it, for one thing. But it seems like a sad and complicated story of a kid with behavioural problems being let down by the system. The adoptive mother sounds a bit dim and twittery but that could be the way the piece is written.

very sad.

I'm surprised the adoptive mother got through the adoption selection process if she 'dreamed of rescuing unwanted children'. Twerp.

Imo this child would have presented challenges whoever adopted her, but the family in terms of expectation and circumstance (having a young child already) sounded all wrong for her. Their fault? The adoption services for placing her with them?

None come out of this well.

just read it again.

That poor child has so many issues.

awful.

very sad. the placement should never have been made. and SS should have provided better support.

what a horrible sensationalist photo. Very sad story, seems like the fault of SS for lack of support and to put it mildy, the fault of rather romanticized and idealistc ideas of the parents. Poor girl.

Awful Daily Mail headline as well - "Little Miss Evil" - at 5 years old. Dreadful.

I couldn't read to the end of the article but Motherinferior echoed my thoughts word for word re the adoptive mother "alaways wanting to rescue "unwanted children" WTF!

THat is really sad the photo is horrible you think you are going to read about the devil child when actually this is not the case

But its the shitty mail for you

INdeed: given that it's supposed to be so hard to adopt a child, why were this naive (although well-meaning) couple allowed to adopt a child who was bound to have problems? Were they not advised, at any point, that there would almost certianly be difficulties of this kine (or did they not register it because they were too sentimental and thick?)

very sad for all concerned.

Oh Fio. you're right of course.

jesus christ how vile.
vile woman
vile revolting newspaper - Little Miss Evil FFS!
I can't believe anyone can read the Mail with a clear conscience.

The parents are not being straight. We've been for preparatory weekends about adoption - indeed we were taught about attachment disorders, personality disorders, difficulty bonding, the huge amount of unending and unceasing effort it could involve. We had adoptive and foster parents talking to us about what it would entail. They must have known. I do understand that it is different to know something intellectually then really know something in practice - the two are different. But they must have known about these issues before hand.

And to behave like that to the poor child ...

OMG I don't even know where to start.

Most of the behaviour esp at the beginning (sloshing water out of the bath and lying about it, pulling the cat's tail etc) sounds like normal bad behaviour for a young child. I wouldn't dream of considering it 'disturbed behaviour'.

"Her tactics were bizarre but insidious: walking strangely, staring fixedly, tapping her feet incessantly, dressing completely inappropriately, often with clothes inside out or back to front.

Everything, in short, to make herself the centre of attention. "

I feel so incredibly sorry for this young girl who has had the most appalling start, and is now being made out to be the Devil Incarnate.

The adoptive 'parents' may not have received sufficient support from SS BUT it sounds like they had astonishingly rose-tinted expectations of their adoptive child. They sound like utter wankers, and I have no doubt that they have contributed massively to the girl's currently disturbed personality.

I can't imagine how heartless they must be to then write about it for public consumption. Loathesome twats.

@ 'picture posed by model'!

Yes on the basis of this woman's concerns, I should have been screaming for social services years ago.

Perhaps my children are disturbed too.

Or perhaps she is.

It's difficult to say.

Agree with Harpsichord and Larry Veest.

DM is a criminally stupid newspaper.

Yeah, but it does have a good showbiz section .