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Is there screening for Anger problems in adoptive parents?

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Is there screening for Anger problems in adoptive parents?

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There was not any kind of psychological screening when I was adopted. My adoptive father had serious psychological problems. Primarily, he HATED women. He lost his father when he was 12 and was very angry with his mother and sister for not letting him become the head of the family. Talk about anger issues! He took it out on his two adopted daughters, emotionally abusing us so that we grew up to be powerless as adults. His wife (my adoptive mother) was virtually a cocker spaniel on a short leash. She too was raised to be powerless, and that made her his perfect wife. So she, too, had psychological problems that prevented her from modeling healthy female behavior for her daughters. No doubt the adoption agency found her subservience to be quite charming – if they noticed it at all. Mostly they cared that they had a nice house, nice cars, and went to church every Sunday (and, of course, had the money). My adoptive parents already had a son (their natural son) and he, as one can imagine gi

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