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
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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
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