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Does Family Matter? The Well-Being of Children Growing Up in Institutions, Foster Care and Adoption

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Handbook of Child Well-Being

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Do parents matter for the well-being of children? In this chapter we review research on the cognitive and social-emotional development of children exposed to different “natural experiments” in which the quality of parenting is not manipulated by experimenters but examined in existing atypical rearing conditions. In one of these natural experiments – institutional care – children often experience limited parenting of poor quality. Outcomes on the development of institutionalized children are presented, including an exceptional experiment with institutionalized children randomly assigned to foster care or continued institutionalization (the Bucharest Early Intervention Project).

In the case of adoption, adoptive parents function as permanent substitute parents for children who often have been exposed to low-quality parenting in institutions before adoptive placement. Is it possible to recover from early adversity and profit from “corrective” parenting experiences? Catch-up and remaining delays have been examined in a series of meta-analyses comparing adopted children with their past peers (children in institutional care) and current peers (non-adopted classmates and friends). It appears that variation in the pre-adoptive environment and the associated outcomes of well-being are also relevant, as has been shown in a study that compared exposure to institutionalization versus foster care before adoptive placement.

Finally, the influence of parenting was examined in more detail in a longitudinal adoption study in which the children were adopted shortly after birth and as a consequence did not experience severe early adversity (the Leiden Longitudinal Adoption Study). In this study we followed adopted children and their genetically unrelated parents from infancy to adulthood. This longitudinal study thus offers a unique opportunity to shed more light on nurture versus nature effects on child outcomes. Altogether, these natural experiments strongly support the notion that parents or rather stable family environments do matter for children’s well-being.

Femmie Juffer is supported by Wereldkinderen. Marinus van IJzendoorn (SPINOZA prize) and Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (VIDI and VICI grant) are supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

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    Asher Ben-Arieh

  2. Research Institute of Quality of Life, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Ferran Casas

  3. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Ivar Frønes

  4. Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Jill E. Korbin

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Schoenmaker, C., Juffer, F., van IJzendoorn, M.H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J. (2014). Does Family Matter? The Well-Being of Children Growing Up in Institutions, Foster Care and Adoption. In: Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F., Frønes, I., Korbin, J. (eds) Handbook of Child Well-Being. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9063-8_179

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