Studies of adult outcomes of infant domestic adoptions are considered: the range of
psychological and behavioural outcomes recorded, the current state of knowledge …

Background Adoption studies can cast light on environmental influences on development,
but heterogeneity in preplacement experiences often complicates interpretation of findings …

Adoption studies are able to provide important insights into the impact of changed rearing
environments for children's development. A number of studies reporting on the childhood …

In many ways, within-country infant adoptions are becoming a thing of the past. However,
several factors arising from this study of social and cognitive progress in children adopted as …

Following on from their article,'Infant adoption in England: a longitudinal account of social
and cognitive progress'(Adoption & Fostering 24: 3, 2000), Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett …

David Fergusson and L John Horwood examine findings from a longitudinal study of the
outcomes of adoption in a birth cohort of 1,262 New Zealand children studied from birth to …

A number of follow-up studies of maltreated children placed late for adoption have confirmed
that, although good progress was likely to take place in the new home, some problems …

This article reports on findings from the Wales Adoption Study which used a sequential,
mixed-method design to explore the early support needs and experiences of newly formed …

The average age that children from care were adopted in 2016/7 was 3 years and 4 months
and a significant proportion of these children were adopted from care due to child abuse or …

The chapter explores the progress made by the 93 adoptees in the core follow-up sample in
terms of physical and mental health and education from the time they entered their adoptive …