Adoption as a measure for the social welfare of children whose parents have died or are unable or unwilling to care for them, brings many positive consequences, but in the absence of a sensitive attitude of adoptive parents, as well as relatives and a wider social environment, towards these children’s specific emotional needs, adoption can also negatively affect their psychological and social development. The fact that they have been chosen at the same time brings awareness that they have been abandoned or their parents have died. The article discusses the experience of being abandoned or bereaved as a relational trauma and its consequences that can be long-term from the perspective of relational family therapy. The findings of the most recent research in the emotional experience of adopted are presented and outlined in the stories of biblical characters adopted from the Slovene standard translation of the Bible.
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