On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, va <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3801614.ece > > Adopted children: sometimes you can't mend them > ============================== > > It was some years before Melanie found a reference to attachment > disorder, and realised that this explained Alex's behaviour. If a > child's early life is dominated by fear, she becomes unable to trust > another person, and if she can't attach she can't love, or be loved. >
An episode [1] of This American Life last year had a similar story - an American couple with birth-children of their own adopt a child from Romania and then have to deal with the adopted child's attachment disorder. This particular story though has a happy ending, and it is quite moving to hear the adopted child's speech during a church ceremony. [1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1204 -- Balaji
