Problems after adoption: some guidelines for pediatrician involvement.
Adoptive families face several important parent-child confrontations relevant to the adopted status of the child, for which early intervention is indicated. These postplacement difficulties are often not rooted in psychologic disturbance but rather reflect the problem of information deprivation in adoptive parents. Specifically, confrontations arise out of telling the child of the adoption, the adoptee's need for information about the biologic parents, and the tendency of adoptees to place adoptive parents in competition with the biologic parents. The nature of these problems and guidelines for intervention by the pediatrician are detailed in this paper.
D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010372:Pediatrics; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations