Adoption of child syndrome is a controversial term that has been used to describe behavior in adopted children claimed to be related to their host status. In particular, this includes problems in bonding, annoying attachments, lying, stealing, defying authority, and acts of violence. This term has never been accepted in a professional community. This term is not found in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual , 4th ed., TR.
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History of the term
David Kirschner, who coined the term, said that most recipients were not disturbed and that the syndrome only applies to "small clinical subgroups".
Researchers Brodizinsky, Schechter, and Henig found that in the literature review, generally the children adopted before the age of six months were no different from the children who grew up with their biological parents. Then the growing problem among children adopted from the welfare system of children at older ages is usually associated with the effects of early chronic abuse in parenting relationships; harassment and neglect.
The psychologist Betty Jean Lifton, himself an adopted person, has written extensively on the psychopathology of the adopted, especially in Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience , and Self-Adopted Journey: A Search for Wholeness and briefly discusses the adopted Children's syndrome.
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See also
- Child abuse
- Child welfare
- Attachment annoyance
- The relative outcomes of parenting by biological and adoptive parents
References
External links
- Adopted Children's Syndrome page, including bibliography
- Adoption History: Psychopatholgy Studies
- Adoption: Official Book Website Uncharted Waters
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