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This isn’t particularly surprising unfortunately. Adopted children display significantly higher patterns of criminality in adulthood due the trauma of being removed from their birth mom during the critical phase where attachments begin to form. I wish I could say this is shocking, but I’ve become jaded by my work in human services and this is far from atypical.I randomly remembered a kid I saw years ago that got a bit of fame for being into crochet. He's an Ethiopian kid that was adopted by a rather nice white family with older biological children. He also has a younger adopted black sister.
He seems sweet and clearly removed from any negative influences.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hF93-Cr6RcI looked him up and he now has an Instagram and is still crocheting at 18, graduated and looked like he would do well in life.
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And well...
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Here's the context from another article. I wonder what he did to get kicked out at 17? Probably molested his little sister.
Though reading this post did make me realize something interesting. A hundred years ago when I was a child I went to a tiny, private Presbyterian school where 1 in 3 of the student body were African American. I got along with them extraordinarily well and the concept of racism was something my child brain couldn’t even fathom. I never perceived them as ‘different’ from me.
I would be relocated to a public school in a wealthy white neighborhood during my formative years so I inevitably lost contact with my private school chums. It wasn’t until I passed a milestone birthday years and years later I got nostalgic for the good old days and decided to look up my classmates from that private school.
No joke. A lot of the African American kids were either struggling with drug addiction, been incarcerated, covered in tats and flashing that typical ghetto clothing style, not working steady jobs and begging for money through apps, kids with no fathers, mental illness…by this point I’d had my fair share of unpleasant experiences with blacks in several of my jobs but had thought it was specifically lower-class ones. These kids had come from well-off, religious families with moms and dads present in their households, and yet here they were displaying every stereotype I’d seen amongst their brethren in the wild, completely shattering any illusions I had that their behavior was simply tied to poverty and lack of education. I felt like an idiot to be honest considering my background in Biology and being fascinated by Anthropology, Linguistics, and the Development of Cultures (and if you study any of these subjects at all, the topic of intelligence will come up and yes you will be bombarded by apologetics and histrionics decrying said research). It’s a really bitter pill to swallow.
