The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as a field of
study. Three historical trends in adoption research are identified: the first focusing on risk in …

This meta-analysis of 62 studies (N= 17,767 adopted children) examined whether the
cognitive development of adopted children differed from that of (a) children who remained in …

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family
forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single …

This study examined relations between children's attention span-persistence in preschool
and later school achievement and college completion. Children were drawn from the …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

ContextInternational adoption involves more than 40 000 children a year moving among
more than 100 countries. Before adoption, international adoptees often experience …

The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of
the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline …

Background: Adopted children have been said to be difficult children, scarred by their past
experiences in maltreating families or neglecting orphanages, or by genetic or pre‐and …

In a longitudinal study, internationally adopted children (N= 146) placed before 6 months of
age were followed from infancy to age 7. Results showed that girls were better adjusted than …

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of
adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who …