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		<title>On Adoption: A Response to MTG.</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingforanswers.com/2022/07/on-adoption-a-response-to-mtg.html</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[19 years ago this month, my wife and I adopted a 2-year-old boy from foster care. 

We are not "FAKE PARENTS".]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9866</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Forward-thinking or Chocolate Chip Pancakes</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingforanswers.com/2021/08/forward-thinking-or-chocolate-chip-pancakes.html</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone with a great deal of wisdom asked me, &#8220;what do you think David will do when he gets out of prison?&#8221;  Forward-thinking. My response was immediate.    I imagine that it came to me as quickly as if you had asked David what color the sky was. Because if one were to ask David, &#8220;what...]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9852</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Off to the State Prison we go…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[what do you do when your child is sentenced to prison? 
the same child who has mental health issues and a significant developmental disability? ]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9848</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Failures of the Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here I talk about my feelings of failure. About how they are unrealistic. briefly talked about the pending charges.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9843</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>It’s me again…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 02:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reactive Attachment Disorder]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello.  It&#8217;s been more than two years since I wrote here. Here I have a birthday wish for our son and a plea for him to turn himself in. Wow.  Time flies. I did get David&#8217;s permission to write here again since he is 20 now. So much has happened, I can only write about...]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9835</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>It’s okay to be angry.</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingforanswers.com/2019/03/its-okay-to-be-angry.html</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjustment Period]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alzheimers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dad, It&#8217;s okay to be angry. Just wanted to take a few minutes and tell you something. You are in a place that is not what you are used to. It isn&#8217;t your home. It isn&#8217;t the life that you remember. The sad thing Dad?  Most days, nothing about that day is the life that...]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9824</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Becoming a “Dad” to my Dad.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on becoming Dad to my Dad. On him beginning to cede control of his life to me.  Of having to "take" over when he is desperately trying to hold on.  Mostly, just some thoughts about our time together as he gets closer to the end of his life.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9819</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Two Weeks Post Discharge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good day my friends. We are two weeks post discharge and I thought that I would post an update about how things are going. In a word.  Stable. He is stable.  No better, no worse.  The difference is that we are actively monitoring his medications, whereas before, he was managing his own medications for most...]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9814</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>The adoption misconception</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am adopted. I have PTSD and depression. These have nothing to do with the fact that I am adopted. My son has a mental illness. Even if he had never been adopted, he would still have a mental illness. Take Autism. Adoption doesn&#8217;t cause Autism. I don&#8217;t believe that is even a remote possibility....]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9810</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>An open letter to the naysayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 20:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those who have chosen to smash our hearts because of the last post. I tell you this. It&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t love him, because we do. A family doesn&#8217;t put as much fight into getting appropriate mental health care for their loved ones without caring. without love. We have taken him into our...]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9805</post-id>	<dc:creator>Carl Young -whynotfathers.com</dc:creator></item>
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