ADOPTION: Trauma that last a lifetime
When the adoptee is separated from her birth mother, she undergoes extensive trauma.
Not all of these issues affect adoptees to the same extent.
What do mental health professionals believe the infant thinks for these first two months?
Reitz, M. & Watson, K., (1992) Adoption and the family system.
She may also be testing the commitment of the adoptive parents, seeing if they will send her away for...