David and Marcia Have Just Adopted a 6-Year-Old Child

Multiple Choice

David and Marcia have just adopted a 6-year-old child. They expressed their concern about bonding with their new child to a psychologist. The psychologist responds that recent research indicates that:

A) children can only bond with their biological parents
B) bodily contact immediately after birth is the only way to create parental bonding
C) adoptive parents rarely form bonds with their children
D) adoptive parents can have just as strong bonds as natural parents