Adoption News - Early Neglect Can Hinder Child's Relationships

An interesting new study shows that early social exchanges experienced during infancy may impact a child's ability to form healthy relationships in the future. A lack of nurturing is appearing to change a child's hormone levels that may result in how a child behaves as an adult. Dr. Bruce Perry, a senior fellow at the Houston-based nonprofit Child Trauma Academy, said

"We fully expect that when children who are neglected like this get care over time those parts of the brain affected are capable of changing, because the brain is malleable and capable of responding to a whole range of environmental experiences, both good and bad. So now these children are in a position where we can be hopeful that they will get better."