Tedaldi in the UK

Here's an excerpt from the URL:"The British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) estimates that one in five adoptions break down, although children who are "handed back" are usually older. The younger the child, the lower the chance of the placement breaking down. A study by the Maudsley Hospital in London found a breakdown rate of 8% after one year and 29% six years later. On average, adoptions that broke down did so 34 months after placement." I'd be interested to compare the proportion of breakdowns among adoptive families versus non-adoptive families. I'd be willing to bet that the breakdown rate among adoptive families is much higher due to the unforseen challenges, the lack of preparation that pre-adoptive parents have, the desperate desire by adoptive parents to have kids blinding them to possible pitfalls and that many adoption agencies do not provide sufficient pre-adoption info about the intense challenges of adoption. As one adoption psychologist had said, "adoptive parenting can be parenting plus". I wonder whether adoptive parents are any more disappointed with having kids than non-adoptive parents? Similar to our increasing divorce rates and given our increasingly 'consume and throw-away' society, I wonder whether the breakdown and/or give-back rates among adoptive families will increase in future? I feel sorry Dan (the adoptee kid in the article) and outraged over the adoption agency that allowed this to happen in the first place. When on earth is the adoption industry going to wake up to the need to better prepare prospective adoptive parents for the journey ahead?

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