Attachment and Bonding In Your Ukrainian Adoption: Study Reveals Age Is Not A Significant Factor

Fascinating results on attachment security six months after
international adoption were revealed in the small study:Factors
affecting attachment in international adoptees at 6 months post
adoptionby Sandra Niemann & Sandra Weiss.

Contrary to what is commonly believed, age at adoption,
developmental status, and length and quality of pre-adoption
care, and adoptive mother's feelings of attachment were not
significant predictors of child attachment status 6 months post
adoption.

The two factors that were significantly predictive of healthy
attachment between a mother and child 6 months post adoption were
the number of pre-adoption placements and the child's stress
level.

Children who had fewer pre-adoption placements had higher
attachment security; similarly, children who had lower stress
levels had higher attachment security. Results suggest that
consistency of pre-adoption care was more important than its
length or quality. Further, children having foster versus
orphanage care prior to adoption differed in quality of
pre-adoption care and in certain attachment behaviors, but not in
overall attachment security.

Published inChildren and Youth Services ReviewVolume 34, Issue 1,
January 2012, Pages 205-212. Also published inAdoption
QuarterlyVolume 14, Issue 4, 2011 under the titleAttachment
Behavior of Children Adopted Internationally at Six Months Post
Adoption.

One of the particulars of Ukrainian adoptions is the opportunity
for the adoptive parents to spend time with their future adoptive
child in the child's environment. We at Adoption Services
International believe this time allows a unique opportunity to
reduce the stress levels in the child and build an attachment
before leaving the child's environment for their new home.

Adoption Services International unites loving US families with
Ukrainian children. We provide a unique combination of
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