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When a prospective adoption finally results in a placement, relief and joy can be closely followed by worry or despair.
It is difficult for all involved in an adoption to predict the challenges that present themselves once the child moves in, because parents and children bring with them their own unique issues which unfold in the new family dynamic.
“Adoptees are coming to terms with the fact that the very people who should have kept them safe were the parents who caused them harm,” says Family Futures’ chief executive Jay Vaughan.
Meanwhile, adoptive parents may have confronted difficulties such as infertility.
“For the majority of adopters, however well prepared they are to take on a traumatised child, nothing can really prepare them for the shock of how challenging it can be, and for the fact that when you ask for help it is not always available,” explains Vaughan.
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