Many parents of traumatized children (including myself) might think that if there is any behavior to have, this might be it, but it still concerns me.

My husband and I recently adopted a 14 year old boy from the foster care system. He had been in the foster care system for 10 years, since he was removed from this mother at the age of 4. The bio-mom and her family were prostitutes and drug abusers so he had very little care as a child.

The behavior that I deal with is that he wants to be physically touching you at all times, whether it's hanging over my back, sitting on my lap while I'm working on the computer or simply holding my arm while I'm doing something. He's never sexually inappropriate, he's just ALWAYS there! He's a full-sized kid who weighs 140 pounds, so by the end of the day, I'm physically exhausted.

Has anyone else experience this? Will it eventually wear off? His adoption has only been final for about 5 months now and he's been living with us for 8 months, so this is all relatively new.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Whitney