sometimes genetics plays a part in whether a child is a bed or awake hours wetter. there are many genetic (hereditary) kidney and liver, nerves, problems that can result in children not able to stay dry, not able to understand when they need to go to the restroom.

with children that have been adopted the adoptive parent sometimes does not get all the information about whats hereditary and what isnt in the childs family.....

examples

I know someone who just adopted a child, that child is a bed wetter. when researching the childs history it turns out that this child has parents, grand parents and great grandparents that carry a hereditary gene that causes bedwetting.

my own child because I have Multiple Sclerosis has the gene for Neurogenetic Bladder Dysfunction.... in short the nerves connecting her bladder to her spine short circuits. sometimes this results in my daughter having accidents other times crying because she feels that full bladder sensation but can not urinate. after many tests its going to take many years before my child will be able to have conscious control over her bladder.

my point of the post that you did not understand was maybe if this child that the thread was about was adopted or the product of her husbands side of the family she may not know the full family history. checking on family history may answer the questions silver ninja has about whether something needs to be done to help the child.

https://www.webmd.com/children/featu...tting-causes#1