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+ | ==========Effects of Adoption on the Child’s Health========== | ||
+ | =====1. Physical Health===== | ||
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+ | A Dutch meta-analysis by Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Femmie Juffer of Leiden University found that when adopted children are initially placed in a new family, regardless of their age, they tend to lag very significantly in height and weight behind their non-adopted same-age peers.((Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Femmie Juffer, “The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 2006: Adoption as Intervention. Meta-analytic Evidence for Massive Catch-Up and Plasticity in Physical, Socio-emotional, | ||
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+ | One health anomaly is worth noting: Internationally adopted children, particularly girls, are at increased risk of early puberty, which in turn contributes to shorter height in adulthood. Girls who are most underdeveloped when they are placed for adoption and who then catch up quickest are at greatest risk of reaching puberty early. Though precocious puberty is very rare for boys,((D.E. Johnson, “Adoption and the Effect on Children’s Development, | ||
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+ | Adoption has the power to [[adoption_outcomes|restore health]] even in drug-exposed children. This is illustrated in a longitudinal study of such children exposed in utero to crack cocaine, other kinds of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and PCP. According to adoptive parent surveys administered immediately after adoptee placement and four and eight years later, drug-exposed adoptees generally functioned normally. Sixty-three percent were reported to be doing “well with few problems.” They were almost identical in most outcomes to adopted children who were not exposed to drugs. Over 97 percent of the [[parents_wanting_to_adopt|parents of these adoptees]] said they felt very close to their children.((D.E. Johnson, “Adoption and the Effect on Children’s Development, | ||
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+ | =====2. Mental Health===== | ||
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+ | A study by Anthony Burrow of the department of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago, and colleagues shows that there are no significant differences in [[effects_of_adoption_on_the_child_s_social_adjustment|psychological adjustment]] or physical health between adolescents who were adopted and those who were not.((A.L. Burrow, J.G. Tubman, and G.E. Finley, “Adolescent Adjustment in a Nationally Collected Sample: Identifying Group Differences by Adoption Status, Adoption Subtype, Developmental Stage and Gender,” //Journal of Adolescence// | ||
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+ | The development of a clear sense of self by the adopted child is influenced by early experience, [[effects_of_adoption_on_family_relationships|adjustment within the family]] and community, and social [[the_need_for_adoption|attitudes toward adoption]] (among a number of other factors). This explains the adopted child’s difficulties in combining a sense of self with other non-familial spheres of social identity.((Harold D. Grotevant, Nora Dunbar, Julie K. Kohler and Amy M. Lash Esau, “Adoptive Identity: How Contexts within and beyond the Family Shape Developmental Pathways, | ||
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