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Siblings

Resources to promote understanding of sibling issues in adoptive families.

Adopted and Biological Children in the Clinic: Family, Parental and Child Characteristics
Cohen, Coyne, & Duvall
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34(4), 1993
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Study suggesting that adoptive families have social and psychological resources that can be relied on in treatment, but adopted children are perceived to have more problems and their families are more likely to consider removal of the child as a solution to problems.

Insight Into Adoption: What Adoptive Parents Need to Know About the Fundamental Differences Between a Biological and an Adopted Child and Its Effect on Parenting
Blomquist (2001)
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Describes the difficulties that some children experience as they cope with the reality of their adoption, identifies common feelings of adopted children and adoptive parents, and highlights the differences between parenting adopted and biological children.

Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption

Siblings in the "Mixed" Adoptive Home: The Relationship Between Children When One Is Born, and the Other Is Adopted, Into the Same Family (PDF - 101 KB)
Scherman (2003)
Discusses adoptive family functioning and sibling relationships when raising both adoptive and birth children together.

Special Report: Nature & Nurture: A New Look at How Families Work
Adoptive Families Magazine (2002)
Study reveals children adopted into families fare as well as those born into them.

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Updated on March 1, 2010