What issues can children and young people who have been adopted face?
When properly supported, adoption offers positive outcomes for children from the care system, including providing them with a permanent family. However, all children who are adopted will have experienced some form of loss or trauma through being separated from their birth families. Many adopted children will have experienced further trauma through their early experiences of abuse or neglect within the birth family. All will have spent time in the care system.
For many children, this trauma may lead to emotional, behavioural, education or development difficulties, which may also affect their ability to form secure attachments with their new parents, develop healthy relationships and navigate day-to-day life.
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