From The Acorn:
The adoption of an infant is an adjustment for any parent, but when an older child is adopted and moves to a new country to live with strangers, the transition period is also difficult for the child.
Such was the case for Trang Huynh, a Vietnamese child who, at the age of 11, was adopted by Agoura Hills pastor Curtis Webster and his wife, Kay.
The adoption was not an easy one for the Kay’s or for their daughter, Trang:
But Trang was not happy about it. She had a happy life at the orphanage with lots of friends and caring teachers.
“I had people who took care of me like their own child, she said. “They put me first.
“She really didn’t want to be adopted, Webster said. “She really didn’t want to leave.
Six years have passed since Trang joined the Webster family in Agoura Hills. She reminisced about the difficulty she had adjusting to a new family.
“When I was alone with them we had nothing to say, Trang said. “They didn’t speak Vietnamese well, and Trang was just learning how to speak English.
Webster said the first year with Trang was very rough, and she acted out in dangerous ways.
“The head banging was scary, he said. “She could have hurt herself.
Trang said she enjoyed cursing at her family in Vietnamese. Webster said that even though he didn’t know exactly what she was saying to him, he understood the message by her tone of voice.
A year’s worth of counseling and a made-up game helped Trang and her family get in sync emotionally.
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