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For troubled adoptees, a last stop. Ranch for Kids in Eureka, Montana

A Montana ranch offers intervention and structure for kids — mostly from abroad — whose new families can’t handle their disruptive conduct.

At first glance, the children saddling up the horses look like they were cast by Hollywood to play wholesome, athletic all-American kids. But outward appearances don’t tell the whole story.

One has molested a sibling. Another has tried to kill the family pet. Lying, stealing, vandalism, fire-setting round out the list of transgressions.

Because their parents can no longer manage them at home, the 24 youngsters — almost all international adoptees — have ended up at the Ranch for Kids http://www.ranchforkids.org/, a therapeutic boarding school in northwest Montana.

This is the final stop.

By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune

Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-adopt20jan20,1,1878957.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

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