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+ | ==========Adoption Outcomes========== | ||
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+ | A number of major research projects, literature overviews, and meta-analyses attest to the overall benefit of adoption. | ||
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+ | =====1. Outcomes for Children===== | ||
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+ | Adopted children benefit significantly from adoption. Many experience a dramatic improvement in socioeconomic status and move into materially advantaged homes and to the care of supportive, educated, adoptive parents who are very interested in all aspects of their child’s development. By being nurtured in a home environment, | ||
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+ | The majority of adopted children live in small families in early childhood, | ||
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+ | Compared to the average child, adopted children fare quite well. Overall, 81 percent of parents who adopt report that their [[effects_of_adoption_on_family_relationships|relationship]] with their child is very warm and close. Compared to children in the general population, adopted children are more likely to read every day as a young child and to participate in extracurricular activities as a [[effects_of_adoption_on_the_child_s_education|school-aged child]].((Sharon Vandivere, Karin Malm, and Laura Radel, “Adoption USA: A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents,” //U.S. Department of Health and Human Services// (2009). Available at [[http:// | ||
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+ | Examination of a large U.S. national data set found that teenagers who were adopted at birth were more likely than children born into intact families to live with two parents in a middle-class family. They scored higher than their middle-class counterparts on indicators of [[effects_of_adoption_on_the_child_s_education|school performance]], | ||
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+ | A Dutch meta-analysis gauged the relative rate of development of adopted and non-adopted children. Over 270 studies of 230,000 children and their parents were included in this analysis. Despite performing below their respective age groups in some outcomes, particularly [[effects_of_adoption_on_the_child_s_health|physical growth]] and [[effects_of_adoption_on_family_relationships|attachment]], | ||
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+ | In the United Kingdom, a large sample of adults, most of whom were adopted before their first birthday, were compared at age 23 and again at age 33 to a birth comparison group of non-adopted adults (of the same age, from similar birth circumstances) and to the general population (of the same age). Adopted women adjusted positively according to all metrics, often outperforming the general population. Adopted men generally did as well as the general population comparison group, though they had fewer social supports and experienced more employment-related problems. At age 33, most of the adopted men and women were performing much better socially and economically than their birth comparison group.((D.E. Johnson, “Adoption and the Effect on Children’s Development, | ||
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+ | The Texas Adoption Project yielded similar results in its thirty-year follow-up evaluation of the adopted and biological children of adoptive parents. Both groups showed generally positive educational, | ||
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+ | =====2. Outcomes for the Biological Mothers===== | ||
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+ | Significantly, | ||
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+ | * They have higher educational aspirations, | ||
+ | * They are more likely to be employed 12 months after the birth and less likely to repeat out-of-wedlock pregnancy. | ||
+ | * They delay marriage but have a greater probability of ultimately getting married. | ||
+ | * They are no more likely than single mothers to suffer negative psychological consequences, | ||
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+ | All the goals of government programs like job training, supplemental education, and family planning are attained with greater ease, and at lower cost, through adoption.((Patrick F. Fagan, " | ||
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+ | This entry draws heavily from [[http:// | ||