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Adopted children have higher mental health risk

October 03, 2008
Scientists have found that a small proportion of adopted teens have a higher risk of certain behavioral and emotional problems than their non-adopted counterparts. University of Minnesota researchers assessed 514 internationally adopted adolescents and 178 domestically adopted teens (aged 11 to 21) and compared them with 540 non-adopted kids of the same age. They found that children who had been adopted scored higher than non-adoptees on measures of behavioral and emotional problems. Adoptees al... Read more »

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