TY - JOUR
T1 - Adoption
T2 - Biological and social processes linked to adaptation
AU - Grotevant, Harold D.
AU - McDermott, Jennifer M.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Children join adoptive families through domestic adoption from the public child welfare system, infant adoption through private agencies, and international adoption. Each pathway presents distinctive developmental opportunities and challenges. Adopted children are at higher risk than the general population for problems with adaptation, especially externalizing, internalizing, and attention problems. This review moves beyond the field's emphasis on adoptee-nonadoptee differences to highlight biological and social processes that affect adaptation of adoptees across time. The experience of stress, whether prenatal, postnatal/preadoption, or during the adoption transition, can have significant impacts on the developing neuroendocrine system. These effects can contribute to problems with physical growth, brain development, and sleep, activating cascading effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Family processes involving contact between adoptive and birth family members, co-parenting in gay and lesbian adoptive families, and racial socialization in transracially adoptive families affect social development of adopted children into adulthood. ©
AB - Children join adoptive families through domestic adoption from the public child welfare system, infant adoption through private agencies, and international adoption. Each pathway presents distinctive developmental opportunities and challenges. Adopted children are at higher risk than the general population for problems with adaptation, especially externalizing, internalizing, and attention problems. This review moves beyond the field's emphasis on adoptee-nonadoptee differences to highlight biological and social processes that affect adaptation of adoptees across time. The experience of stress, whether prenatal, postnatal/preadoption, or during the adoption transition, can have significant impacts on the developing neuroendocrine system. These effects can contribute to problems with physical growth, brain development, and sleep, activating cascading effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Family processes involving contact between adoptive and birth family members, co-parenting in gay and lesbian adoptive families, and racial socialization in transracially adoptive families affect social development of adopted children into adulthood. ©
KW - Children
KW - Context
KW - Development
KW - Families
KW - Neuroendocrine system
KW - Risk
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892159050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84892159050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115020
DO - 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115020
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24016275
AN - SCOPUS:84892159050
VL - 65
SP - 235
EP - 265
JO - Annual Review of Psychology
JF - Annual Review of Psychology
SN - 0066-4308
ER -