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Direct linkGolombok, Susan; Mellish, Laura; Jennings, Sarah; Casey, Polly; Tasker, Fiona; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2014
Findings are presented on a U.K. study of 41 gay father families, 40 lesbian mother families, and 49 heterosexual parent families with an adopted child aged 3-9 years. Standardized interview and observational and questionnaire measures of parental well-being, quality of parent-child relationships, child adjustment, and child sex-typed behavior…
Descriptors: Fathers, Homosexuality, Adoption, Foreign Countries
Leve, Leslie D.; Kerr, David C. R.; Shaw, Daniel; Ge, Xiaojia; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Scaramella, Laura V.; Reid, John B.; Conger, Rand; Reiss, David – Child Development, 2010
To further the understanding of the effects of early experiences, 9-month-old infants were observed during a frustration task. The analytical sample was composed of 348 linked triads of participants (adoptive parents, adopted child, and birth parent[s]) from a prospective adoption study. It was hypothesized that genetic risk for externalizing…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Infants, Genetics
Peer reviewedChisholm, Kim – Child Development, 1998
Assessed attachment/indiscriminate friendliness in children who spent at least eight months in Romanian orphanages (RO); a nonadopted, never-institutionalized Canadian group; and an early-adopted Romanian group. Found that RO children showed more insecure attachment and indiscriminate friendliness than others. Insecure RO children had more…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems
