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Attachment generally occurs between birth and age two. There are some studies that indicate that attachment begins in the womb. While I do believe that babies are able to recognize their mother's voice at birth, adopting alone will not likely cause attachment problems. If the child is chronically ill, has lots of ear infections, mom becomes ill for a long period of time, or mom is unable to bond for various reasons, a child can develop attachment problems. This, however, would be true with a birth child as well.
In my opinion, one of the best things parents can do is learn about attachment parenting for infants. This is basically parenting for optimum attachment and is good for all infants birth or adopted.
Stop listening to anti adoption people-you'll drive yourself nuts.
Most children adopted at birth do not develop problems with attachment especially if parents are open about the adoption from the beginning.
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