What Are The Challenges Of Adoption?

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Children and young adults that are placed for adoption go through many challenges throughout their development in life (Brodzinsky, 2011). According to Jones (1997), one of the most reoccurring topics adoptees of all stages of life mentioned in therapy is abandonment (Jones, 1997). Feelings towards the relationships people make can be fragile, and for adoptees, the feelings of abandonment are common. Even with the challenges that adoptees face, research demonstrates that children in adoption have the likelihood of a more secure and stable life; especially when you consider their alternative, long periods of time in foster care, abusive or neglectful families and substance exposure (Brodzinsky, 2011). Even so, problems that adoptees experience …show more content…

For adolescents, their development into early adulthood, gives them a better understanding of what it implies to refer to themselves as adoptees. They better understand the legalities that are associated with adoption (Brodzinsky, 2011). Their personal perspective on where they fit into society can have positive and negative consequences. Adolescents can learn to accept and appreciate adoption and the service provided; which intentionally is developed to better their lives and the lives of children in adoptive services. Negative consequences in adolescents and abandonment originate from the interaction and relationships with their peers as well as their care providers. Adoption can become a complicated endeavor for adolescents, especially since the feelings of separation and negative emotions surrounding an adoptee come from the connections of both their biological family and adoptive family. By showing an interest toward the adolescences confusion and emotion can aid in developing a healthy sense of self for both the adoptee and the care giver. Since adolescents can vary on how interested they are with their adoption; past or present. Some are willing to connect with their biological families while others do not. In order to achieve a …show more content…

A strong predictor for a better outcome of adoption is how early adoption occurs. Studies show that children less the 12 years of age have a more success in attachment and social relationships (Harwood et al., 2013). There are many associations that can be made between adoptees and the adversities they faced in pre-adoption; which can be categorized into age when placed into adoption, maltreatment before and during adoptive care, and their history of substance exposure. All these circumstances can have a direct impact on the probability of mental health problems but, establishing good quality relationships between caregiver and adoptee becomes, a significant mediator for these adversities and even the adoptees academic outcome (Harwood et al., 2013). Almost all adversities of pre-adoption and adoption itself are all correlated with one another: The older the adoptee age during adoption showed demonstrated a higher probability of mental stress and low academic success. The same relationship is seen with maltreatment and substance exposure. Adoptees might face certain strains in life that the average person might not but, data demonstrates that adoption has no effect on the individuals self-esteem, on the contrary, it might even be higher than average. Building strong positive trustworthy relationships during

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