Effects Of Adoption Disruption

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Adoption disruption is when a child is in the process of being adopted and that process is stopped or the adoption process ends after the child is placed. These children are returned to group homes and/or foster care. The statistics reflect that this occurs more with older children than younger children. Adoption disruption occurs for a variety of reasons such as: children who are older in age, children with emotional and behavioral issues, attachment issues, children who had sexual abuse, lack of social support for the adoptive family, unrealistic expectations of both the child and the adoptive parents, lack of history information of child, not enough training for the adoptive parents, race, siblings being adopted together, disabilities of children, children who have experienced neglect and the length of time the child was not in home care such as group-homes prior to adoption consideration. Disruptions are life altering and extremely psychologically harmful to children. Since the 1990s the U.S. has been working on policy changes to improve adoption permanency. “The US Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997 (P.L. 105–89) continued to promote the theme of timely permanence for foster children through the reduction of birth parent reunification time …show more content…

Mother’s with higher education had a high rate of disrupt. It is suggested that this is due in part because the higher the education of the mother the more likely she works outside of the home. Also, the mother with higher education has less parenting experience. It was also suggested that if both prospective parents work, there was a higher chance of disruption due to the child having a difficult time adjusting to the family dynamics. Also, the college educated parents could have higher expectations of the child than with parents of less

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