Effects of Parent Who Was Institutionalized Or Placed In Foster Care As A Child: Childhood Trauma Quiz

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Our quiz will analyze how parent who was institutionalized or placed in foster care as a child may have shaped how you show up in relationships today

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🏠  What it means to have grown up with a parent who was institutionalized or in foster care as a child

Growing up with a parent who experienced foster care or institutionalization meant your parent's unresolved trauma became the invisible blueprint for how you learned to navigate the world.

You may have noticed that normal kid behavior triggered outsized reactions in them, making you feel like you were constantly walking through an emotional minefield. Their exaggerated responses weren't about you, but your developing mind learned to interpret it that way. You became fluent in their trauma worldview, constantly scanning for the same dangers they carried, even when those threats weren't present in your reality.

You may have picked up ways of protecting yourself that made sense in your family but don't work so well in other relationships. You're hypervigilant about your own behavior, constantly checking to make sure you're not recreating the family patterns you've worked so hard to escape. It's difficult to trust your own instincts because the unhealthy patterns you witnessed can still feel strangely familiar and "right." At your core, you carry a fear that you're destined to repeat your family's cycle of pain.

💔  The Core Wound

"You learned that trauma gets passed down like genetic material, that the world is fundamentally unsafe based on inherited fears, and that despite your best intentions, hurt is what gets passed down through generations."
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