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Behavioral adjustment of adopted Chinese girls in single-mother, lesbian-couple, and heterosexual-couple households.

This study compared the behavioral adjustment of girls from families headed by single mothers and lesbian couples with their peers from married heterosexual households. The sample included 93 Chinese girls adopted by the three types of families (31 girls in each type of family). The girls in the thr...

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Published in:Adoption Quarterly Vol. 12; no. 3/4; pp. 171 - 187
Main Authors: Tan TX, Baggerly J
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Dec2009
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          Tan TX
          Baggerly J
        affil: College of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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          Adaptation, Psychological
          Adoptive Parents
          Child Behavior
          Child, Adopted
          Family
          Social Adjustment Evaluation
          Checklists
          Chi Square Test
          Child
          Child Behavior Checklist
          Child, Preschool
          Chinese Persons
          Comparative Studies
          Data Collection Methods
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          LGBTQ+ Persons
          Human
          Infant
          Linear Regression
          Middle Age
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Single Parent
          Surveys
          Child: 6-12 years
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: This study compared the behavioral adjustment of girls from families headed by single mothers and lesbian couples with their peers from married heterosexual households. The sample included 93 Chinese girls adopted by the three types of families (31 girls in each type of family). The girls in the three types of families were matched on age at adoption, age at assessment, and number of adoptive siblings. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to measure their behavior adjustment (i.e., internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and overall behavioral problems). General linear modeling revealed that children from the three types of families were not statistically different in behavioral adjustment except in the preschool-aged group's internalizing problems and the school-aged group's externalizing problems, wherein children in single-mother households scored lower than their peers from lesbian-couple households. Psychological and social-political implications are discussed.
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