e to this social stigma. Other problems sometimes develop as a result of the adopted child having been first placed in a foster home(s) or an orphanage.
In addition, adoptive mothers and fathers are often apprehensive as a result of the perceived difference of not being biological parents to the adopted child. Consequently, adoptive parents can sometimes feel inadequate and begin to develop doubts and fears about their parenting abilities. Further, the adoptive process itself is an emotionally and physically exhausting ordeal.
Adoptive parents' ability to create a close relationship with their newly adopted child, which has been termed "bonding" by professionals in the field, as well as the parents' feeling of "entitlement," i.e., that the parents are the real parents and deserve to be viewed as such, are very real issues that need to be addressed in order to achiev
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