The aim of the present research was to evaluate the effects on medium and long term effects of transcultural adoption. After recalling briefly the characteristics of this adoption, the authors present a study made in 1983 on a sample of 28 children from South-east Asia and adopted four to twelve years earlier by Belgian francofone families living in the province of Hainaut. The research workers used the intellectual development and the scholar success as dependent variables and analysed the subjects' affective life. The results are generally very positive as these children's scores in the intelligency tests were higher, on average, than those of Belgian children of the same age. Intellectual development is better when they are adopted young. Moreover, most subjects scholar development is very satisfying in spite, sometimes, of certain verbal weaknesses. The tests also showed for these children an affective life as valuable as for children brought up by their legitimate parents in a favoured socio- cultural environment.
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