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biological parent seemed to explain most of the variation. In 2015 an adoption study that compared
Swedish male-male full-sibships in which at least one member was reared by one or more biological parents and the other by adoptive parents was published. Parental education level was rated on a 5-point scale and each additional unit of rearing parental education was associated with 1.71 points higher IQ. The results were replicated with 2 341 male-male half-sibships, controlling for clustering within families, each additional unit of rearing parental education was associated with 1.94 IQ units. The study in Minnesota was conducted by Bouchard. It had an emphasis on identical twins that were separated and raised by different families.
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testing children to find out how smart they were. Mental tests were popularized by
Goddard who used a version of the Binet scale. The Gesell Scale was made and became the most widely used by adoption agencies in the 1940s. This is a way of testing a baby's intelligence. This is determined through normal growth, development, and mental milestones. This raised some social and moral issues some children were deemed unfit for adoption because of their low mental test scores. The outcome of these selective adoption studies found that ultimately had no effect on the happiness or success of the children. It also had no effect on the satisfaction of the parents.
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genetics, while similarity with the adoptive parent is due to home-environment, which is referred as the shared environmental effect. The adoptee's family method compares non-biological siblings who are reared in the same household. Similarity to non-biological siblings raised in the same household is attributed to shared environmental effect, as the siblings are genetically unrelated but share the home environment.Variation that cannot be accounted for by either genetics or home-environment is typically described as a non-shared environment.
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have other mental disorders. The study, was unable to conclude what the impact was on daughters. A more recent study was published in 2009 which compared the parental alcoholism of children in non-adoptive and adoptive families. This study found that the likelihood of children developing alcoholism later in life was associated more with genetic rather than environmental factors.
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studies that followed have had similar results."The
Stockholm adoption study (2000 adoptees) found that criminality alone was not transmitted from biological parents to adoptees, but did find elevated rates of criminality in adopted-away offspring of biological parents with alcohol use disorders (AUD) alone, or with both AUD and criminality (Bohman, 1978)."
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Adoption studies have been used to study childhood obesity. This study showed a strong correlation for the environmental argument. Children were strongly influenced by adopted parents weight till mid childhood. During adolescence this dissipated. This study also showed that the biological parents and
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In the mid-1970s, adoption studies were conducted to investigate the effects on children of having a biological parent with alcoholism. The study found that sons whose biological father has alcoholism were four times more likely to develop alcoholism within their lifetime, but were not more likely to
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Sarnoff A. Mednick and Karl O. Christiansen in Denmark. They argued that relevant data demonstrated that criminality has a significant genetic component that interacts with environmental risk factors. Adoption
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result of child rearing methods. Analogous studies that followed have shown that mental disorders such as alcoholism, antisocial behavior and depression have a large genetic component that can interact with environmental risk factors such as family conflict, poor coherence, and deviant communication.
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