Parenting Late-Placed Children: The Development of New Relationships and the Challenge of Behavioural Problems
Researchers followed 61 children placed aged five to nine in new permanent families. After a year, parents described 73% as attached to at least one new parent. Children not described as attached had more reported behavioural, emotional and communication difficulties. Previous rejection by birth parents was also associated with this group.
Limitations: Attachment and child difficulties were assessed through parent reports, not direct adoptee testimony. Associations do not establish causation. This historical sample includes adoption and permanent fostering; findings are not exclusively about adoptees. Related publications use overlapping participants.
- Research type
- Longitudinal child-outcome study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Adoption from care / permanent placement; mixed care pathways where specified
Programme: Joining New Families: middle-childhood permanent placements
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: attachment, longitudinal research, mental health, Parent proxy evidence
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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