On the documentary that I saw there were other issues besides language, but because of the language problem, this created a barrier to sorting the other problem out.  The other issue was what caused the child to react so badly when adopted.  Because he child had been in the orphange for so long, and there were so many children for the carers to look after, most of the orphans were not used to being physically cuddled, as they had had no physical contact of this kind in maybe 2-3 years.  These girls are 5 and 8 and at first it will be very hard for them---maybe harder than trying to be close to a toddler.  They say that what happens in the first three years is crucial to a child’s development and to be honest cuddles and hugs and love are an enormous part of a child’s development.  So with the language barrier, I guess I meant to say that it is very hard for the child to accept things in the new country, new home as they are in a westernized society...or anywhere else, simply because no one ever had time to pick them up or cuddle them.  

When a child like that is placed into a warm loving family they don’t know this is normal because they have never experienced it as such.  These children sometimes have never seen grass...the little girl on the documentary...it showed her running in a park and just running on the grass, and she was in amazement because she has never seen grass or played like that outside.  Don’t get me wrong they are cared for very well in the orphanages no doubt, but this is little substitute for cuddles and nursery rhymes and stories that children normally get one on one as children.  They go from lying in rows of cots and beds to having a room of their own and it is very difficult.  that is why it WILL take someone with enormous resolve and courage to be deytermined to have the two girls and help them.