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Different Placement Practices for Different Families? Children’s Adjustment in LGH Adoptive Families

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dc.contributor.authorCosta, Pedro Alexandre
dc.contributor.authorTasker, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorLeal, Isabel Pereira
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T13:18:07Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T13:18:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-18
dc.description.abstractObjective: The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of children placed with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adopters, and to examine children’s problem behaviors and positive psychosocial adjustment across the three family types. Background: There is evidence that children with hard-to-place profiles may be more likely to be matched with lesbian and gay parents. In addition, children adopted from care face greater developmental difficulties than children raised by their birth families, although adoptive parents may buffer the negative effects of early adversity on their children’s psychosocial adjustment. Method: A final sample of 149 adoptive families from across the United Kingdom was recruited: 71 heterosexual parented, 39 lesbian parented, and 39 gay parented. Results: The results showed that gay and lesbian parents were more likely than heterosexual parents to be matched with hard-to-place children, partially because they were more open to being matched with children with hard-to-place profiles. However, no differences among the three family types on children’s psychosocial adjustment were found, when controlling for children’s early adversity. Conclusion: Adopted children displayed similar levels of problem behaviors and positive adjustment in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parented families. Early adversity and having a physical problem/disability accounted for much of the variance in problem behaviors whereas parenting did not. In contrast, it was suggested that parenting processes, namely, parental closeness, may help to explain children’s positive adjustment.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationCosta PA, Tasker F and Leal IP (2021) Different Placement Practices for Different Families? Children’s Adjustment in LGH Adoptive Families. Front. Psychol. 12:649853. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649853pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649853pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28273
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relationThis work was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under a post-doctoral research Grant SFRH/BPD/99752/2014 awarded to PAC and by the pluriannual funding to William James Center for Research [FCT (UIDB/04810/2020)].pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectadoption processes, early adversity, resilience in adoption, lesbian mothers, gay fatherspt_PT
dc.titleDifferent Placement Practices for Different Families? Children’s Adjustment in LGH Adoptive Familiespt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Psychologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume12pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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