Comments on: Healing Downloads http://special-needs.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/healing-downloads Contains information on various special needs from the unique perspective of the adoptive parents of special children. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:07:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sdiedre http://special-needs.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/healing-downloads/comment-page-1#comment-61 sdiedre Sun, 13 May 2007 12:03:53 +0000 http://parenting-sp.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/04/10/healing-downloads#comment-61 I totally agree! I sat in one of my PRIDE classes and listened with horror as a potential foster mom explained that she would never take a child to a therapist as all the child needed was to pray. She, too, had had an abusive past and found her answer in God.<br /> <br /> I praised her mental, spiritual and emotional fortitude but pointed out that not everyone has that and perhaps therapy could be helpful? She dismissed my concerns and reiterated that all a child needed was God.<br /> <br /> Scared me! I totally agree! I sat in one of my PRIDE classes and listened with horror as a potential foster mom explained that she would never take a child to a therapist as all the child needed was to pray. She, too, had had an abusive past and found her answer in God.

I praised her mental, spiritual and emotional fortitude but pointed out that not everyone has that and perhaps therapy could be helpful? She dismissed my concerns and reiterated that all a child needed was God.

Scared me!

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