![]() ![]() That’s about half of the adoption population. The best data on how often this happens comes from the Donaldson Institute’s Keeping the Promise report in 2010 which asserts that about 30% of adopted children will show some behavioral problems linked to attachment impairments and early trauma and about 15% of adoptees need ongoing clinical help for attachment-impaired, trauma-based challenges. And exaggerating the frequency to bring awareness doesn’t help. It’s just not true that EVERY adopted person has RAD or that every adoptive family deals with the symptoms he enumerates. And then Todd Friel, the Wretched host, said something that brought me back into my prefrontal cortex: that RAD was something “that I feel accompanies every adoption.” The title of the video says it too – that “most adoptive parents are dealing with this.” Sadly, my daughter (now 18) still whines like that when escalating, so my amygdala responded instantly. ![]() The video opens with a man whining “don’t hate me”. We believe there is hope for healing, and we focus on supporting the families, educating parents and professionals and bringing awareness to the very serious, very real plight that families of children with RAD experience. We’ve been the VOICE for traumatized children and their parents. For 20 years, ATN has been supporting families of children with RAD. There are definitely valuable gold nuggets, but the delivery of the message can be off-putting… But, frankly, we’re baffled by this video. ![]() Whenever ATN finds something that can be useful to parents of traumatized children and to those who have RAD and their families, we share through all our social media channels. While the “dress color” controversy and video of two escaped llamas is going viral with the general public, this video is definitely making the rounds on Facebook and in the blogsphere: ![]()
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