Is the risk of attachment disorder related to age at adoption, time spent in an orphanage, or is it just deprivation/abuse/neglect?
It starts with pre-natal care, then moves on to the conditions at birth, conditions in the orphanage, the staff/child ratio and the natural resiliency of the child. Any infant who is neglected when she cries can be at risk for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). RAD can develop within the first few months of life. Many children on the attach-china list who are now being treated for RAD, were adopted as infants. However, the longer a child is exposed, the greater the risk, so there is some correlation between RAD and age at adoption. • So, infants can be affected by attachment disorder? Yes, infants can be affected. The symptoms and severity are harder to detect because infant behavior is much more limited. Infants who have been abandoned by their birth mothers and then placed in an orphanage where they receive inconsistent care are especially susceptible to attachment disorder because they never had an opportunity to attach to someone. They are at additional risk in utero if their moth
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