Adoption and Lying: Adopted Syndrome or not?

Lorraine

Due to the stories of reunion troubles that emerged from the last blog, I am reposting one that I wrote in 2010.--lorraine

Over the weekend I met up with an old friend, a therapist who facilitates groups of parents of troubled children, and while some of them are children of divorce, she added that a fair number of them are adoptive parents. A friend of ours sent their teenage son for a year to a school for problem kids, and the son reported that many, if not most of the kids there were adopted, or children of divorce. I won't go into the children of divorce issue here, but the statistics of trouble are there, among the adopted:

"The number of Adoptees in the adolescent and young-adult clinics and residential treatment centers is strikingly high. Doctors from the Yale Psychiatric Institute and other

Adoption Trauma: Real or Not?

Jane

Because we’ve had more comments on The Trauma of Being Adopted than any other topic, I thought I’d try to gather a few more facts. I looked at an article referenced by one of our readers, Behavior Problems and Mental Health Contacts in Adopted, Foster, and Nonadopted Children* and articles we posted earlier, Adoption and Mental Illness: The Facts Ain’t Pretty** and At Last, Respect: Amherst Establishes First Chair in Adoption.

What did I find?