In the United States almost 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. About 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly thirty-two percent of these children will have to wait over three years in foster care before getting adopted. However, the statistics for this many children clearly show the ineligibility of adoption or lack of criteria meeting families and also has a real impact on the adoptees life. Adoption affects adolescents in a negative way because it is detrimental to their emotional stability, their sense of worthiness or feeling unwanted, and severe trust issues. Many more than less adopted children have hidden emotional
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Many of adopted children can never really trust after being neglected and abandoned by the biological parents. First, lying is a big thing in the adoptive parent’s relationship with the adoptee, because maybe they try to hide that they have adopted them. David Brodzinsky states on page five that, “Those individual difference and contextual factors preventing, minimizing, and/or ameliorating the impact of adverse biological and social experiences on the developing child.” Sometimes the children are not able to carry a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship since they might be lied too. They probably will not believe the parents or friends telling them something, because of the lies that build up over the years. They might have a tendency to not being able to interact correctly with their other peers. Having a habit of not letting people in, or continue to keep everything to themselves if they don’t like to share feelings or thoughts with other peers. “Lies keep building up and it caused a lot of harm in my sixteen years.” – Anonymous. Not being able to trust anyone, the children learn to hide their feelings and keep secrets to themselves, so they don’t get anyway to release their problems and pain that they endure into someone else’s
Many of adopted children can never really trust after being neglected and abandoned by the biological parents. First, lying is a big thing in the adoptive parent’s relationship with the adoptee, because maybe they try to hide that they have adopted them. David Brodzinsky states on page five that, “Those individual difference and contextual factors preventing, minimizing, and/or ameliorating the impact of adverse biological and social experiences on the developing child.” Sometimes the children are not able to carry a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship since they might be lied too. They probably will not believe the parents or friends telling them something, because of the lies that build up over the years. They might have a tendency to not being able to interact correctly with their other peers. Having a habit of not letting people in, or continue to keep everything to themselves if they don’t like to share feelings or thoughts with other peers. “Lies keep building up and it caused a lot of harm in my sixteen years.” – Anonymous. Not being able to trust anyone, the children learn to hide their feelings and keep secrets to themselves, so they don’t get anyway to release their problems and pain that they endure into someone else’s