Communication In Family Communication

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Communications affects everyone. The way individuals interact with one another says a lot about a person’s background. Communication has many important factors that brings people together such as, love, connection, better understanding of others, work out differences even in foster environments. Many aspects come to play in correlation with being adopted and interacting in a family home. Some examples include, attachments, nurturing, love, etc. When a parent is talking to their child, the mother and father is showing full interest in the conversation. However, the conversation may differ when speaking to a biological child verses an adopted child (Rueter, 2009). In the present paper, the level of intimate nurturing in family communications …show more content…
Studies have shown behavioral problems occurs when adoptees are situated in a home after six months of age (Moore, 1999). Often times children are unsatisfied with adjusted because the child was suffering from the loss of separation from his or her biological parents. According to Janette Moore M.D. (MRCPsych) and Eric Fombonne M.D. (FRCPsych) early and late adopted children did not vary significantly, meaning there was only a few differences found between early and late adopted children. In the present study, researchers conducted an experiment with collecting evidence from adopted children under eighteen years of age. The researchers assumed that adoptees behavioral problems came from the loss of separation from their biological families which caused a child to conduct disorder such as anxiety, depression, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder known as ADHD. Researchers IJzendoorn, Juffer, and Poelhuis wanted to know whether the intellectual development of an adopted child has an effect in learning and does it differed from a biological child of the family. Frequently adopted children fall behind on their school performances and develop learning issues due to the interactions with their non-biological siblings and peers. According to a Centre for child and family …show more content…
Mothers develop such an inseparable bond with their child, with many aspects including physical, sentimental and intellectual development. Usually the relationship begins to become an attachment when the child is an infant. However, for an older adopted child it is a difficulty transitioning experience in swapping families. When a child is older and moving to a new educational program it will become a burden on the non-biological parents to monitor psychological health problems if willing to go through intensive parenting practices (Pylypa, 2016). Poorly attachments amongst relationships between the mother and child will suffer with symptoms of depression, anxiety, resist guidance and nurturing. In fact, lack of eye contact may resemble the adopted child to feeling of shame and discomfort with intimacy. When the attachment becomes a disorder, the adoptee and non-biological mother will become seemingly distant from each other, lack of cause-and-effect thinking, and low self-esteem (Pylypa, 2016). An article written by Jen Pylypa states that RAD is also known as Reactive Attachment Disorder, when a child suffers from trauma to the attachment from his or her history of physical or sexual abuse, neglect or frequently changing caregivers. In result by the researches if parents were to attend workshops and practice their communication skills with the adoptee, an increase level of

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