Childhood trauma can cause children to feel anxious, disconnected, and distrustful, and these effects can complicate their adjustment to new homes.
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HARDLY BS — Verdict: Mostly True
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The Short Version
The claim is well supported overall. Research and clinical guidance consistently associate childhood trauma with anxiety, withdrawal or disconnection, distrust, and attachment problems, and these patterns can make adjustment to a new home more difficult. The main caveat is that much of the evidence is observational, so the causal wording is somewhat stronger than the underlying studies alone can prove.
Caveats
The strongest evidence supports increased risk and likely causal pathways, but many cited studies are observational rather than definitive experiments.
Not every traumatized child shows the same symptoms; effects vary by trauma type, severity, age, support, and placement stability.
Evidence for difficulty adjusting to new homes is strongest in child-welfare and clinical syntheses, while specific effect sizes across foster-care studies are more mixed.