Indiscriminate Behavior Of Adopted Children

Other research with adopted children has shown that indiscriminate behavior may endure even after the children form some sort of attachment to their adoptive parents. If the adopted child goes to their parents for comfort and protection but still tends to approach strangers, those signs do show us that it represents attachment behaviors. Children who have experienced a neglectful caregiving environment have clearly demonstrated a high risk of having either RAD or DSED (Zeanah, Gleason, 2015, 209). Berger (2016) mentions the different stages of attachment. The first stage is birth to 6 weeks, which is the pre-attachment phase which newborns signal by crying and their body movement, when a caregiver responds in a assured way, the newborn will