The piece explores the perspective of other adoptive parents whose children have severe
psychiatric problems due to trauma early in life.
Occasionally, a young woman is referred due to concern about a possible
psychiatric problem due to the severity of her behaviour, indicators of psychosis or a suspected developmental problem such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
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In many cases, this is
due to lack of change in parental behaviour, often because of parental
psychiatric difficulties such as depression, drug and alcohol
problems, and personality difficulties.