Vol. 6, No. 2• May 2002

FYI: Outcomes for drug-exposed
children eight years after adoption

• In a survey of over 2,500 adoptive parents, researchers found that children with pre-natal drug exposure functioned very much like other adopted children in educational attainment, emotional adjustment, and behavioral adjustment.
  
  
• The only significant difference was that children with pre-natal drug exposure were more likely than other adopted children (56.6% versus 30.2%) to be enrolled in a class for children with learning disabilities.

Source: Barth, R. P. & Brooks, D. (2001). Outcomes for drug-exposed children eight years post-adoption. In R. Barth, D. Brodzinsky, and M. Freundlich, (Eds.). Adoption and Prenatal Drug Exposure: The Research, Policy, and Practice Challenges. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

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