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Adoptive Son Needing Help with Behavior Problems

I am a mom of a 13.5 yr old adoptive son whose past includes sexual and physical abuse from infancy. I believe he was "rejected" from the womb, as his foster mom told me before I got him. My family and I already adopted another son who is now in his twenties, just joined the National Guard on his own and is doing well. In October 2006, Brandon acted out with suicide and we sent him (with the help of the dept. of Health) to Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. About a month a half later he came home to Maui and into a therapeutic foster...