Yooper article on adoption Adopted and adapted well
Children adopted overseas are not more risk of developing behavioral problems as young stock Quebecers. Overall, their adjustment to family backgrounds, social and school is very similar to children born in Quebec.
This assumes, among other things, an extensive survey of international adoption in Quebec, conducted among parents who adopted children between 1985 and 2002. According to Réjean Tessier, professor at the School of Psychology and one of the main contributors to this research involving 1333 children, this result has some sort of break the stigma surrounding adoption, namely that children adopted abroad are neither more nor less potential criminals or, less dramatically, live more behavioral problems and have difficulties in establishing a relationship of attachment with their adoptive parents.
Consult a psychologist?
"Some psychologists tend to draw a grim picture of the situation, says Réjean Tessier. It does unnecessarily alarming new parents. Shortly after the adoption, parents will go to a psychologist, believing that their child is struggling to cling to them, for example. But even in a non-adoptive children as parents take time to build a trusting relationship. We must therefore avoid speaking of insecure attachment for at least a year after adoption. Stop believing that all children adopted abroad require special monitoring. Obviously, this does not prevent the fact that some children need more guidance than others. "
If adopted children sooner reveal a rate of attachment security higher than children adopted later, a late adoption does not necessarily lead to problems of development or behavior, the study says. Thus, adopted children after the age of four do not know more adjustment problems than those adopted between 18 and 36 months. Then, the average rate of failure or learning difficulties in children adopted is similar to that of the entire child population of Quebec. Same thing in learning French and mathematics, where the results are similar.
There is no right or wrong country
Certainly, many children adopted during certain times today suffer from behavioral problems. This is the case of small Romanians adopted in 1988 and 1989, having lived most often in precarious conditions before arriving in Quebec, they can keep the legacy of their painful past and suffer, for example, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. "The country of origin of children is not associated with behavior problems especially if it is only children from Asia tend to have fewer problems than those from Haiti, Russia and Romania, "says Réjean Tessier, who defended well to try to list the" best country "in adoption. "There is no right or wrong country adoption, the researcher insists. Each experience is unique and other factors come into play in a proposed adoption, as when the child was adopted, age at the time of its adoption and living conditions before the adoption. "
Boys are more trouble than girls
Another fact highlight of this investigation: overall, boys have more difficulty coping than girls in their new environment. Faced with this situation, several questions arise. The boys are at greater risk in their pre-adoptive environment? Would they have more health problems when they arrive in Quebec? Unless they suffer from psychological problems with which most parents would difficult to cope?
One thing is certain, concludes Réjean Tessier: overall, the adoptive parents provide their children with opportunities for development and quality of care that promote their growth and ability to recover the accumulated delays in pre-adoptive environment. Like what nothing would be lost and everything would win for these kids come from elsewhere, who have no other choice but to put their lives in the hands of strangers, with the confidence of the world.
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The only thing I find unfortunate in this text when referring to the fact that boys experience more difficulty adjusting than girls, Jaures liked that instead of asking the questions the author takes us answers. What are they based in establishing this item? why would they have more difficulties and how? Perhaps this element would it be worth deepens. Already in Quebec the vast majority of couples seeking to adopt girls than boys take along anything that element to help change the trend.
