Adoption Does Not Increase the Risk of Mortality among Taiwanese Girls in a Longitudinal Analysis.

Adopted children often experience health and well-being disadvantages compared to biological children remaining in their natal households. The degree of genetic relatedness is thought to mediate the level of parental investment in children, leading to poorer outcomes of biologically unrelated childr...

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Main Authors: Siobhán M Mattison, Melissa J Brown, Bruce Floyd, Marcus W Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4414473?pdf=render