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What happens to adoptive parents if they neglect the child?

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This has nothing to do with me or people I know. It's for a movie I'm making with friends. So these older people say in their 50's adopt a kid who is about 11 years old. This kid is an orphan and is a bit weird and anti-social so nobody wanted to adopt him before. The older couple take him in, but mostly he goes out to their old barn and reads by himself. Over the years they forget about him as he starts staying out there. At some point social services finds out about this. What would they do with the kid and the adoptive parents, especially if the parents have alzheimer's ?