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How to Interpret Behavioral Issues in Adopted Children

Our adopted son has been stealing money from my purse and lying about it and I do not know if this is normal acting out or something deeper from his early trauma.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The difficulty of distinguishing between ordinary childhood struggles and the echoes of early wounds.

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