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What is International Adoption?

International Adoption is when a couple legally becomes parents of a child or children who are native to a different country.

Fun Fact

Main issues the guardians will come across

Attachment issues

  • Infant stages
  • Most infants have insecure organized relationships with the guardians
  • Will shut down and wont talk through situations
  • Insecure attachments also cause children to be less optimistic in social development
  • The more in tune the parent is with the situation the stronger the attachment will become

Mental Development

Mamo Reisig's Adoption

Parenting

The type of parenting depends on the child/children's background. It also depends on the memory of their birth parents if any.

Need to have an understanding of...

  • How the child interprets situations
  • Feelings on adoption
  • Understanding of the situation
  • Background of the original family
  • Why they go put up for adoption
  • How adoption works

The babies

  • Have no memory
  • But will have to clear everything out later on

The toddler

  • Will have a weaker memory
  • Will have more positive feelings about the adoption

The older

  • May have positive feelings about it
  • However, they may have the complete opposite feelings
  • Will have a strong memory

Take a ways

  • Disobedience
  • Denial
  • Adjust
  • Language difference
  • Understanding of authority
  • Sensitivity

short interview

How are non biological parents supposed to parent their international adoptive child/children?

  • Every year more than 40,000 children are adopted worldwide.
  • 84-91% of children adopted in 2013 had noticeable mental development issues
  • The main cause for this mental development was because of language differences
  • most orphanages don't teach the children English
  • After just on year with the parents the percent went down to 57% left with mental development issues
  • The infants tested had mental developments that had been corrected within 3-6 day of being with their new parents
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