Eine Adoption verursacht sowohl für Adoptierte als auch für Erstmütter erhebliche, langfristige psychische Gesundheitsprobleme. Adoptierte sind einem 35-mal höheren Risiko eines Selbstmordversuchs ausgesetzt, während Erstmütter im Vergleich zu Gleichaltrigen einem 37,7-mal höheren Risiko ausgesetzt sind
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15/3/167
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An interesting study – but I don’t believe it says what people will take from this. This merely shows that adoptees and their mothers suffer with issues.
However we know there is an element of both nature and nurture to things. What this study does not do is establish causal link. For example, the issues that mothers who give their children up for adoption face could be a result of the adoption process, or could have actually been the cause of the chain of events that lead up to the adoption. The same traits could then be passed to their children.
Obviously I am not saying the above is a fact. What I am saying is that the study above does nothing to differentiate between this scenario and the one where the adoption process itself caused the issue (or even some combination where the adoptee suffers due to the process but the mother was unwell before etc).
So this gives us information about result, but not the process to get there. Meaning we now know what happens – but we do not know why nor do we know the best course of action to treat or help.
I can’t see anything in a quick glance through which considers age at adoption, and whether this is a factor in the mental health issues.
Anecdotally, my wife was adopted at 10 weeks and even now at 66 she has issues which seem to trace back to that event. This wasn’t helped when once, thirty odd years ago she met up with her birth mother and got nothing more than „If you’re looking for money from me you’ll not get any“.
compared to people who have no reason to give their kids up for adoption or compared to mothers who give their children to a state run orphanage?
Infant adoption is very, very different in terms of psychological consequences than older child adoption. Older kids are often adopted in situations of CPS involvement, abuse, neglect, parental substance abuse, or parental death, all of which have well documented risks to child mental health. Infants and toddlers adopted from overseas often lived months or years in group care settings like orphanages, which again, have well documented impacts on mental health. Even without abuse or neglect, moving a child who has spent 4-5 years with one caregiver to a different caregiver has profound attachment consequences. You can’t disentangle the effects of adoption without considering these factors.
it’s almost as if we should care about children’s mental health along with their physical health.