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Peer reviewedSpringer, Ken – Child Development, 1996
Results of two experiments indicated that preschoolers expected adopted babies to share physical properties, but not preferences with their biological parents; and recognized that a baby who looks like and lives with a woman but who grew inside another woman's body is not the first woman's baby. (BC)
Descriptors: Adoptive Parents, Biological Parents, Biology, Genetics
