Adversity, Adoption and Afterwards

by Alan Rushton
Adversity, Adoption and Afterwards
  • ISBN-13: 9781907585647
  • Author(s): Alan Rushton
  • Editor(s): John Simmonds
  • Subject: Child care & upbringing|child care & upbringing: advice
  • Publisher: Corambaaf
  • Imprint: Corambaaf
  • Publication Date: 04-02-2013
  • Format: p/b

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Children who have experienced orphanage care and have been placed for adoption have rarely been studied. The follow-up study of a group of ethnically Chinese women, adopted from Hong Kong orphanages in the 1960s by British families, provides a unique opportunity to understand the potential for recovery from early adversity and adaptation to radically changed life circumstances. Through questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, this book examines not just the effects of orphanage care, but how human beings adapt and change over their lifespan.
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Children who have experienced orphanage care and have been placed for adoption have rarely been studied. The follow-up study of a group of ethnically Chinese women, adopted from Hong Kong orphanages in the 1960s by British families, provides a unique opportunity to understand the potential for recovery from early adversity and adaptation to radically changed life circumstances. Through questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, this book examines not just the effects of orphanage care, but how human beings adapt and change over their lifespan.

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