Adoption is known to promote cognitive and emotional development in children from foster care, but policy debates remain regarding whether children adopted by gay and lesbian parents can achieve these positive outcomes. This study compared the cognitive development and behavior problems at 2, 12, and 24 months postplacement of 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in heterosexual and g...

Mrs. Ellison, from a wide experience of social work, writes about the history of the background of adoption and of the emotional problems involved. She describes the social difficulties, especially the housing shortage, which to-day makes it hard for many to achieve the conditions of family life. Her stories from casehistories, however, make the issues appear too simple and advocate adoption as...

j Dr. Hilda Lewis and Miss Margaret Kornitzer, both well known for their work /[connection with adoption, have written this leaflet for adolescents who are worried J ?ut the fact of their adoption and their relationship with their own parents. In simple terms it expresses probable anxieties about illegitimacy and the moral .social problems involved. Reliance on the personal value of the child, ...

It is important to distinguish between the portion of faculty time that is spent in direct contact with students in classrooms, laboratories, studios, clinics, etc. and the time spent on instructional activities generally. The distinction is important because activities involving direct contact with students account for only a fraction of the time spent on fulfilling instructional responsibilit...

Adopted children often experience health and well-being disadvantages compared to biological children remaining in their natal households. The degree of genetic relatedness is thought to mediate the level of parental investment in children, leading to poorer outcomes of biologically unrelated children. We explore whether mortality is related to adoption in a historical Taiwanese population wher...

OBJECTIVES The purposes of this investigation were to determine the frequencies of and associations between different neurodevelopmental disorders and to study the potential lasting effects of alcohol on children adopted from eastern Europe. METHODS In a population-based, prospective, observational, multidisciplinary, cross-sectional, cohort study of 71 children adopted from eastern Europe, c...