How Do You Handle Attachment Disorders In A Young Foster/Adopt Child?
Foster/ adoptive mother gives tips on how to bond with a child who has had too many seperations in their lives, or have lived through too much abuse. Many times, when a child comes into your foster/adopt home, they have already lived in several homes with many, ever changing people taking care of them. The lack of a single, consistent caregiver in their life can cause the child to have trouble trusting people. While a foster child of any age can have an attachment disorder, my own experience has only been with infants, so that is what I will discuss here. An attachment disorder usually occurs when the child has not been nurtured at all during their young life, or when the child has lived in so many different places that they have never learned to trust in one stable, nurturing influence. No one has ever cared for them long enough to learn their body language and individual needs. The faces they see change too often for them to learn to ‘attach’. As a defensive mechanism, the child simp
