Abandonment issues and a rise in violence - how lockdown affected adopted kids
Describing the impact the Covid crisis has had on her children, Rachel says, ‘they feel like they’ve been abandoned’.
Like many kids, the pandemic has hit them hard – but it’s other circumstances that have made the last 12 months even more difficult to deal with.
Both of Rachel’s children, two boys aged six and five, are adopted and underlying issues of abandonment have had the most profound effect on them – even though their mother has tried to rationalise the rules of lockdown.
‘It affects