Pound Pup Legacy

I found a website that dares to link the adopted child to alcohol/drug addiction, and I found it very interesting how most blame gets placed on the biologic parents.  [As if only alcoholics or drug addicts relinquish their children to the foster care/adoption system!]

Dr. Stephen V. Faraone, author of Straight Talk about Your Child's Mental Health, says that a complex combination of genes and environment (i.e. chaotic parenting, stress, social adversity) impact whether a person will develop a psychological disorder/substance abuse problem. Adopted children may bear genetic influences, as well as early environmental stresses. The foundation for potential drug abuse, then, can begin to accumulate early in an adopted child's life, even before adoption.

A study conducted in 1995 by the University of Iowa points to factors that form genetic pathways that lead to drug abuse and dependency. The study suggests that one pathway goes directly from the biological parent's alcoholism to drug abuse. The other pathway, as the study describes it, is less direct, yet still significant. It begins with an antisocial personality in the biological parent, passes through an adoptee's issues of aggression, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and ends in drug abuse or addiction.

The issues underpinning the reasons for adoption are the same as those that contribute to possible drug addiction, according to the study, "Childhood Abuse, Neglect, and Household Dysfunction and the Risk of Illicit Drug Use: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study." Published in the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics in March 2003, the study says that children who were maltreated in childhood were more likely to experiment with drugs earlier and to become a substance abuser.   http://www.byparents-forparents.com/adoption_and_addiction.html

I was told by my adoptive mother my natural mother was an alcoholic whore who had no control over her actions.  It turned out, according to my non-id info, my natural mother was a scientist who did a lot of world traveling, and was in fact, very well educated, worldly, and UNMARRIED.

It was my adoptive mother who came from an alcoholic family, and it was my a.mother who popped more pills than I care to re-count.  Later-on, during my teen years, it was my adoptive mother's brother who was convicted for illegal drug use, and it was my adoptive mother's inability to cope with any form of stress that made ME turn to drugs and alcohol in college.

SO.... where are the studies on the stress that adoptive-family influence brings an otherwise healthy happy  child, and where is the discussion about parental behaviors that cause a person to turn to sex, pills, drugs and alcohol for "comfort"?  Is it too risky to suggest adoptive parents are not without blame when it comes to faulty parenting?  And is it fair to always blame the First Parents for all the ills and emotional issues an adoptee develops?