Study: Children in Foreign Adoptions Adjust Well; They Are Only Slightly More Likely Than Nonadopted Children to Have Behavioral Problems Like Anxiety

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CHICAGO (AP) - They are often born in poverty and civil strife, abandoned, put in an orphanage, and then suddenly uprooted and sent to live an ocean away with strangers from another culture.

And yet, children adopted from abroad seem to adjust remarkably well, according to a new study that challenges the widely held notion that these youngsters are badly damaged emotionally and prone to disruptive behavior.

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Study: Children in Foreign Adoptions Adjust Well; They Are Only Slightly More Likely Than Nonadopted Children to Have Behavioral Problems Like Anxiety

The analysis of more than 50 years of international data found that youngsters adopted from...

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