ABSTRACT
According to informal reporting, it would seem that a disproportionate number of foster carers and adopters live with children who manifest attention difficulties, usually, but not always, with hyperactivity. Broadly speaking, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Attention Deficit Disorder is usually viewed as a developmental disorder of self-control that consists of problems with attention span, impulse control, and activity level that lead to impairment of the child’s ability to function successfully at home and at school. Adopted children are those who live with a permanent family other than their birth parents. Virtually all adopted children have been living outside their birth family prior to being adopted. The length of time they live in foster care varies enormously. A child either is or is not adopted/looked after, although children living in “kinship” care situations and those in very short-term care can be somewhat harder to define and describe.
