How They Fared in Adoption: a Follow-Up Study / / David Fanshel, Benson Jaffee.

Reports the findings of research into the life adjustment of one hundred adult adoptees after the number of non-relative adoptions rose from 50,000 in 1957 to more than 83,000 in 1967.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1970]
©1970
Year of Publication:1970
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Child Welfare League of America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • One: Introduction
  • TWO: Conceptualizing the study
  • THREE: The study method
  • FOUR: Describing the adoptive families
  • FIVE: Describing the adoptees
  • SIX: Background for adoption
  • SEVEN: Revelation of adoptive status
  • EIGHT: Child-rearing practices: behavioral indicators of entitlement
  • NINE: Context of adoptive family life: interrelationships among background, revelation, child rearing, and other environmental variables
  • TEN: Adoptee′s life situation at follow-up
  • ELEVEN: Measuring the outcome of the adoptive experience
  • TWELVE: Correlates of outcome: background variables
  • THIRTEEN: Correlates of outcome: revelation of adoptive status
  • FOURTEEN: Correlates of outcome: child-rearing practices and environmental influences
  • FIFTEEN: In summary
  • Appendix A: Additional notes on the study method
  • Appendix B: Interviewing the adoptees
  • Notes
  • Index