"The infants often cry and cry.
Some of the toddlers go limp when caregivers pick them up.
Others hug every adult in sight.
Some older children with younger brothers and sisters act as if they are little parents.
“They’re very protective, and they struggle with being separated from their siblings,” says Tiffany McDonald, a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center social worker.
“It’s a survivor skill,” says Mary Greiner, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and expert in child abuse and neglect."
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