Impact of biological children's adjustment on their siblings who were adopted from China.
This study investigated how biological children's adjustment influenced the adjustment of their younger siblings who were adopted from China. It included 40 families with 40 biological children (average age, 7.9 years; SD = 2.3) and 40 adopted Chinese children (average age, 3.5 years; SD = 2.0). Dat...
| Published in: | Adoption Quarterly Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 278 - 296 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008
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