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Additional studies look at both adopted and biological children to determine whether genes or the environment or both contributed to the child’s behavioral model. They surveyed people that were a part of the Texas Adoption Project, which began over 30 years ago with families that had adopted a child from a church site for unwed mothers. They were followed throughout the years to determine how the adopted children faired throughout life to see if adoption influenced the child’s life for better or for worse. Studies have been done in the past to determine whether genetic or environmental differences play a larger role in a person’s adult life but not as much in the adoption population. These scholar developed survey to determine …show more content…
They included items about academic achievement, occupational status, marriage, and closeness to parents during school years, adjustment in school, and personal problems. Then they were asked number of questions about their personality status. The researchers first looked at how adopted children turned out compared to biological children in respect to all these grouping. This difference was not large. Biological children were rated as being better students in high school, received more education, and had jobs with greater responsibility. Adopted children were rated as having more problems, such as more often being anxious or depressed, and in more trouble with the law. Adopted children also displayed less social activity and were less independent, mature, and agreeable. The scholar has also found that biologically related individuals tend to be more similar than non-biologically related individuals suggesting how big a role genes play in overall life outcomes. The primary factor is genes, since adoptees do have less adequate outcomes than biological children due to the fact that they come into these new families with a genetic disadvantage. This genetic disadvantage ends up affecting them for years to come (Loehlin, …show more content…
It is also being used to help scholars to determine whether genetics or the environment has a greater influence on the behaviors of adopted children. Yet, despite the differing of opinions there is more support to conclude that adopted children are likely to develop behavioral problems, because adopted children and their families do have to go through lots emotionally to endure the challenges they face. It was interesting that genes seemed to play a bigger role in this than the environment even though they both were included. Important information was collected to see that genetics plays a more major role when it comes to adopted children and their behavioral problems rather than their environment. It would be interesting to develop a conflicting argument to get even more research that supports that adopted children are not at a greater risk for developing behavioral problems. Hopefully, now we can have a better understanding of adopted children and how they develop a greater risk of behavioral
Additional studies look at both adopted and biological children to determine whether genes or the environment or both contributed to the child’s behavioral model. They surveyed people that were a part of the Texas Adoption Project, which began over 30 years ago with families that had adopted a child from a church site for unwed mothers. They were followed throughout the years to determine how the adopted children faired throughout life to see if adoption influenced the child’s life for better or for worse. Studies have been done in the past to determine whether genetic or environmental differences play a larger role in a person’s adult life but not as much in the adoption population. These scholar developed survey to determine …show more content…
They included items about academic achievement, occupational status, marriage, and closeness to parents during school years, adjustment in school, and personal problems. Then they were asked number of questions about their personality status. The researchers first looked at how adopted children turned out compared to biological children in respect to all these grouping. This difference was not large. Biological children were rated as being better students in high school, received more education, and had jobs with greater responsibility. Adopted children were rated as having more problems, such as more often being anxious or depressed, and in more trouble with the law. Adopted children also displayed less social activity and were less independent, mature, and agreeable. The scholar has also found that biologically related individuals tend to be more similar than non-biologically related individuals suggesting how big a role genes play in overall life outcomes. The primary factor is genes, since adoptees do have less adequate outcomes than biological children due to the fact that they come into these new families with a genetic disadvantage. This genetic disadvantage ends up affecting them for years to come (Loehlin, …show more content…
It is also being used to help scholars to determine whether genetics or the environment has a greater influence on the behaviors of adopted children. Yet, despite the differing of opinions there is more support to conclude that adopted children are likely to develop behavioral problems, because adopted children and their families do have to go through lots emotionally to endure the challenges they face. It was interesting that genes seemed to play a bigger role in this than the environment even though they both were included. Important information was collected to see that genetics plays a more major role when it comes to adopted children and their behavioral problems rather than their environment. It would be interesting to develop a conflicting argument to get even more research that supports that adopted children are not at a greater risk for developing behavioral problems. Hopefully, now we can have a better understanding of adopted children and how they develop a greater risk of behavioral