ABSTRACT
The attachment is fundamentally different from that between children and their biological parents, largely because it is an attachment to strangers. The emotional and psycho-social complexities that result from the experience of attachment, separation, and the expectation of attachment to a new family would be difficult enough to fulfil. But they are made more so by the trauma that many children suffer before they are taken into care or placed for adoption. However, the children and new families live their parts in the problem of the expectation of belonging, and the difficulties in developing a sense of it. As part of the corporate parent, the family is tasked to treat the child as if their own. A sense of belonging directs us at observing and understanding the child’s inner world, the way the child approaches and recognizes being approached by the external world, and how the external world itself comes to the relationship.
