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Adoption to major children: a challenge for parents and children


Though the majority of the pairs who choose the way of the adoption prefer babies, they are not few ones those that they choose for the challenge of adopting major children.

The children and girls adopted in late form constitute a very vulnerable group, since they have lived through a long abandon and, in many occasions, physical and emotional mistreatment.
In this election, the adoptive dads have to be very well prepared. They must understand that, in general, it is a question of healthy children and with an intellectual normal performance, but that can present delay in some areas of the development and specific disorders due to the lack of stimulation. In addition, almost in the hundred per cent of the cases they come from an affective pathological and unstable context.
In The United States, great part of the children who are in the public lodgings to the wait of a home it they have, I mediate, eight years. But the statistics indicate that 90 per cent of the pairs for that children look, babies prefer.
In case of the major children, the parents must have the capacity and disposition to construct a healthy relation and restorative, that is a real guarantee of protection and safety for the child.