![]() WHY DO POST-INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILDREN DEVELOP ATTACHMENT PROBLEMS?įor normal emotional development, babies need a primary caregiver who responds quickly, consistently and lovingly to their demands, so they learn that their needs for food, clean diapers, pain relief, etc will be met. As they grow older, new inappropriate behaviors, typically more extreme or excessive than developmentally normal, may indicate emerging unresolved attachment issues. But many adoptive parents are discovering that children who seemed to have attached well as infants begin to display symptoms of attachment problems as toddlers, preschoolers, or in elementary school. Indeed, this may be a factor in choosing only to adopt an infant. Until recently, many adoptive parents assumed that only post-institutionalized children adopted as toddlers and older were at risk of developing Reactive Attachment Disorder and that babies under age one would quickly and completely overcome early emotional deprivation once they were in a loving family. Some people prefer to label milder cases as attachment problems, and limit the term Reactive Attachment Disorder to serious cases. While Insecure Attachment can be ambivalent, avoidant or disoriented-disorganized, Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a continuum, from very mild attachment issues to the severe cases of extreme autistic or sociopathic behavior. They are typically angry, oppositional, defiant and do not trust others. They cannot develop the ability to form successful relationships, or accept responsibility for their actions, and lack cause-and-effect thinking, empathy towards others, and a conscience. ![]() Individuals with the most serious level of this personality disorder are unable to give and receive love. One of the known risks of adopting a child from an orphanage is Reactive Attachment Disorder. ![]()
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