It's wonderful that 20% do well even after early adversity but there are so many who suffer. What can be done to prevent and better treat the suffering of the 80%? That's what I always wonder when I read an article such as this one.
Many adoptive parents become informed about ACEs after having learned, through personal experience, that love and security aren't always enough to help a child feel safe and to recover and heal.
Parenting with ACEs is for adoptive and foster parents as well, who may or may not have experienced ACEs as children, but are raising children who have.
I learned more about developmental trauma and healing from other adoptive parents than I did in traditional talk therapy. I learned about attachment and what promotes health as well as how and why adversity causes symptoms, issues, and difficulties. Here's the story about how some adoptees, now adults, who lived in orphanages in Romania are doing today.
Many young children adopted from Romanian orphanages by UK families in the early 90s are still experiencing mental health problems even in adulthood, researchers say.
Despite being brought up by caring new families, a long-term study of 165 Romanian orphans found emotional and social problems were commonplace.
But one in five remains unaffected by the neglect they experienced.
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