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If I understand your question correctly- Yes. The intensity and likely hood of these diagnosises are more severe and frequent the longer a child is in orphanage or foster care. Primarily because the conditions that enhance these issues are not addressed and can create more issues.

I agree with Txwanna. (If I also understand your question correctly.) You're asking if the problems with attachment, etc., will be worse the longer the child is in an orphanage, right?But I will add that each child is an individual and their reaction to their circumstances is individual. So two kids in the same circumstances may have different levels of severity in emotional/neurological problems. It isn't as simple as "x + y = z". Some children with relatively mild neglect can have a significant problem with bonding and attachment. (No neglect is truly ever 'mild', but there are varying degrees of neglectfulness, length of duration, etc.)Generally speaking the younger a child is when adopted into a family who works to address their attachment problems the better their long term emotional outcome. There are exceptions to every rule; for instance, the child who never attaches, even when adopted as a young infant, or the older child who endured years of neglect and hardship but goes on to attach and bond well with their adoptive family.

As the others have said the time in the orphanage does make it worse, but also there is the care given in the orphanage. When a baby is in a healthy family type environment, whenever they are cold, hot, hungry, thirsty, wet, in pain, or whatever, they cry. It's thier only form of communication. In the best situation, someone (usually a mom) comes fairly quickly. This person will assess the situation and usually fix it. While this person is changing the baby or feeding the baby or whatever, they will smile and talk to the baby. The baby comes to recognize the face and the voice and learns that they will take care of them. When a baby is in an orphanage (or in the care of a parent who does not know how or wish to parent, or who is impaired) sometimes when a baby cries a loving attendant will come. Sometimes there are too many babies and not enough care givers, so they don't have time to come everytime. They might not be able to hold the baby while they feed it. Sometimes one of the caregivers might be unahappy with her job and may be rough with the children or may not see to thier needs. The baby might be confused. Different faces are taking care of them, and some do well and some don't. The baby may learn that crying doesn't work, so they give up. They learn that some caregivers don't smile or talk to them, so they give up on trying to communicate on them. I suppose that if an orphanage was staffed with loving caregivers who lived with the children and the same caregiver stayed with a child for the years they were there, and each caregiver had only a few children to care for, the children might have a better chance of not being affected. That said, some children do better than others. I don't think anyone is sure why. But that is true of humans in general. Several peope can live through a horrific event and some will be more affected by it than others. Sometimes some will overcome it faster. Different personalities handle things differently.

yes, barksum That's my quesion righ ^_^

Isn't this the 2nd time this question has been asked this week? The neural transmitters that develop in the brain during the first 2-3 yrs of a child's life determine whether that child feels safe and secure in his environment.....or not. As the child gets older his brain develops in other areas and the pathways that were established in his frontal lobe during the earliest years continue functioning the way they were established. Either the child trusts those in authority around him or he has determined from a very early age that he is the only one who wants what's best for him. The sooner a loving family can step in and take this child into a good, supportive, nurturing environment and start tearing down the old neural pathways and encouraging his brain to build new ones, the better off he'll be. The longer he functions off the pathways of self-defense and looking out for #1, the harder it will be for him to change and heal.My daughter was neglected in her birth family for 13 months before being put into the Russian orphan care system. She was in the system until I brought her home at 30 months. After 4.5 yrs we're finally developing a healthy relationship. The therapist we've seen most recently kept telling me that because she was in an orphanage I should expect that she was abused, possibly sexually, while she was there. In his experience that's the norm for kids in institutional care. The longer a child has to survive in that kind of environment the stronger he's going to become in his determination (consciously and subconsciously) never to trust anyone in authority -- and it was his parents, mom in particular for most, who were responsible for him ending up in that situation and therefore anyone who wants to be his parents are going to feel the rage that has been buried for so long. So, yes, the longer a child is institutionalized the stronger and more established his attachment disorder and other emotional and/or psychological disorders will become.Here's a link to [URL="http://christiansinglesadopt.net/reactive-attachment-disorder-links/impact-of-neglect-on-infant-development/"]a paper I wrote[/URL] for my psychology class along these lines.