Although I always try to emphasize the positive adoption experience, I am well aware that a significant number of adoptions are fraught with complications. Often, one of the complications that I read and hear about is the overt rejection of one or both of the adoptive parents by the adopted child. There are anecdotal accounts that when this phenomenon occurs, the mother is more often rejected than the father. While many people may believe this would only be a problem with older adopted children, it is something that can and does happen with children who are as young as preschool... more