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Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth

Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth AbstractThis study tests pathways to adoptive parents' psychological distress over time and then examines gender differences in psychological distress. Participants included 190 adoptive mothers and 190 adoptive fathers from the longitudinal Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project, a study of U.S. domestic infant adoptions. The majority of adoptive parents reported low psychological distress 10 to 20 years post-adoption. Some struggled throughout their adopted youth’s childhood and adolescence. This study utilizes data allowing an examination of parenting during middle childhood and adolescence. For adoptive mothers and fathers, outside stressors significantly predicted psychological distress. For adoptive fathers, perceived parent–child incompatibility was also predictive. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth

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Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth

Abstract

AbstractThis study tests pathways to adoptive parents' psychological distress over time and then examines gender differences in psychological distress. Participants included 190 adoptive mothers and 190 adoptive fathers from the longitudinal Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project, a study of U.S. domestic infant adoptions. The majority of adoptive parents reported low psychological distress 10 to 20 years post-adoption. Some struggled throughout their adopted youth’s...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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1544-452X
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1092-6755
DOI
10.1080/10926755.2018.1508530
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Abstract

AbstractThis study tests pathways to adoptive parents' psychological distress over time and then examines gender differences in psychological distress. Participants included 190 adoptive mothers and 190 adoptive fathers from the longitudinal Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project, a study of U.S. domestic infant adoptions. The majority of adoptive parents reported low psychological distress 10 to 20 years post-adoption. Some struggled throughout their adopted youth’s childhood and adolescence. This study utilizes data allowing an examination of parenting during middle childhood and adolescence. For adoptive mothers and fathers, outside stressors significantly predicted psychological distress. For adoptive fathers, perceived parent–child incompatibility was also predictive.

Journal

Adoption Quarterly – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2019

Keywords: Adoption; adoptive mothers; adoptive fathers; psychological distress; longitudinal

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