The adoptee may feel hopeless. They may feel sad for no apparent reason. Their life may be going great, but for some reason, they can't be happy about it. Many adoptees, including Dana Plato, have problems with stealing and shoplifting. I believe that many adoptees are reaching out for help and sometimes the only way for them to get attention is to break the law.
Relationships are commonly a source of fear and pain for many adoptees.
They often cannot handle the intimacy from as early as birth. For instance, they frequently have trouble bonding to their adoptive parents, and later have difficulty maintaining adult relationships with lovers. The identity problems that I am referring to are simple. Adoptees who have not yet reunited yet do not know who they look like or take after. When they see the resemblances that their adoptive family members have to each other, they feel different.