L'adoption internationale : étude clinique d'un groupe d'enfants d'origine asiatique.

Abstract

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.

Racial IQ Differences among Transracial Adoptees: Fact or Artifact?

“…An obvious next step is to seek more data to see how well competing hypotheses accommodate them. The study list in van IJzendoorn et al’s Table 1 [17] contains three more studies of the IQs of transracially adopted East Asians, namely Lien et al [30], Wattier and Frydman [33], and Stams et al [34]. My own searches turned up another study, Loman et al [35], as well as Dalen et al [36] and Lindblad et al [37], two papers about entire cohorts of Swedish men.…”

“…Wattier and Frydman [33], like Frydman and Lynn [11], considered the IQ of a few Asian children adopted in Belgium. From the abstract: “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 [sic?]…”

“…Lien et al [30] and Wattier and Frydman [33] suggest a mean East Asian transracial adoptee IQ below 100. Stams et al [34] is harder to interpret; although that study’s East Asian adoptees were tested alongside non-East Asian adoptees, the non-East Asian adoptees do not fit cleanly into the usual hereditarian racial framework of Whites, Blacks, and East Asians, so it’s unclear how to test the hereditarian hypothesis against these data.…”

réalité post-adoption des parents ayant réalisé une adoption internationale d'enfants plus âgés /

“…Bien des auteurs s'entendent, toutefois, pour dire que trois ans est l'âge le plus déterminant pour parler d'adoption tardive (Ouellette & Belleau, 1999;Terre des Hommes, 1992;Maury, 1991). C'est surtout à cet âge que les risques sont les plus élevés d'avoir vécu des expériences négatives ou de nombreux placements ou des abus (Wattier & Frydman, 1985;Hoksbergen & al., 1987; : www.centrejeunessedequebec.qc.ca : consulté le 23 mars 2010. Maugan & Pickles, 1990;Beal, 1993;Choulot & Brodier, 1993;Harper, 1994;Balland & al., 1995).…”

“…Kahlil Gibran ( (Ouellette & Belleau, 1999; Terre des Hommes, 1992;Maury, 1991). C'est surtout à cet âge que les risques sont les plus élevés d'avoir vécu des expériences négatives ou de nombreux placements ou des abus (Wattier & Frydman, 1985;Hoksbergen & al., 1987; : www.centrejeunessedequebec.qc.ca : consulté le 23 mars 2010. …”