Not exact matches
In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of
different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more
than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten
different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married
parents,
biological cohabiting
parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.
As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very
different adults; that adopted children are more like their
biological parents than their adopted
parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents
than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.
In some instances, depending on the child's history, level of trauma, and other factors,
parenting an adopted child can be completely
different than parenting a
biological child.
Parenting these kids was so different than parenting our biological children who had never been tr
Parenting these kids was so
different than parenting our biological children who had never been tr
parenting our
biological children who had never been traumatized
So, yes, adoptive
parenting LOOKS
different than parenting biological children.
Due to that philosophy,
parents did not know that this wonderful adopted child experienced a
different brain developmental trajectory
than biological kids and kids who did not experience their first years (plus utero) bathed in stress hormones.
Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two -
parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes
than those in single -
parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have
different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»
Overall, the distributions of the
different attachment styles in children living in institutions have been shown to have lower rates of secure and higher rates of disorganised attachment
than those observed in children living with their
biological parents in the general population (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2011; Katsurada 2007; Muadi et al. 2012; Zeanah et al. 2005).