Experiences, concerns, and service needs of families adopting children with prenatal substance exposure: Summary and recommendations

Parents who adopted children from out-of-home care with prenatal substance exposure were interviewed four months after the child's placement in the ho me, and again after the first year regarding their experience with adoption and their concerns about their child's development, attachment, and behavi or; aspects of parenting and the adoption process; effects of prenatal subs tance exposure; and availability and helpfulness of resources. Adoptive par ents found parenting children with prenatal substance exposure to be both m ore rewarding and more difficult than they had imagined.