A Study of Adopted Children, Their Back‐ground, Environment and Adjustment

Personality and family relations of children who bully

“…Information was available on criminality and alcohol abuse in the biological fathers who had no contact with the children (Bohman, 1970). The results showed no association between these characteristics of the biological father and deviant behaviour in adopted children.…”

Familial transmission of prostate, breast and colorectal cancer in adoptees is related to cancer in biological but not in adoptive parents: A nationwide family study

“…Data were not available about age at adoption. However, from other sources we know that most adoptions were previously made from unwanted pregnancies in young unmarried women [31][32][33]. The children were taken into institutional care by the municipalities shortly after birth to be adopted at a median age of 6 months, and few children were adopted at a later age than 12 months [31][32][33].…”

“…However, from other sources we know that most adoptions were previously made from unwanted pregnancies in young unmarried women [31][32][33]. The children were taken into institutional care by the municipalities shortly after birth to be adopted at a median age of 6 months, and few children were adopted at a later age than 12 months [31][32][33]. Boys tended to be adopted at a later age than girls, and children with early signs of disability were often exempted from adoption and cared for in foster care or institutions [31][32][33].…”

Familial Transmission of Venous Thromboembolism

“…[34][35][36] Finally, the adoptive parents were older than the biological parents at the age of VTE diagnosis (73.5 versus 61.8 years, respectively), which is explained by the age distribution where adoptive parents were older than biological parents. [34][35][36] As increasing age is a risk factor for VTE, this could explain why more adoptive than biological parents had had VTE. However, this is not likely to affect the SIRs in the calculations of the biological and nonbiological familial risks.…”

“…[34][35][36] The children were taken into institutional care by the municipalities shortly after birth to be adopted at a median age of 6 months, and few children were adopted at a later age than 12 months. [34][35][36] Boys tended to be adopted at a later age than girls, and children with early signs of disability were often exempted from adoption and cared for in foster care or institutions.…”