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One limitation of the information obtained from traditional genetic and family-dynamic research has been the fact that the children of disturbed parents have grown up together with their parents. In contrast, when the child is separated from his/her biologic parents at an early age and placed in an adoptive family, discrimination between the hereditary and environmental factors is possible, because the adoptive children receive their genetic characteristics from the biologic parents and their family environment from the adoptive parents. This gives an opportunity to investigate heredity and environment.
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Tienari, P. et al. (1983). The Finnish Adoptive Family Study: Adopted-Away Offspring of Schizophrenic Mothers. In: Stierlin, H., Wynne, L.C., Wirsching, M. (eds) Psychosocial Intervention in Schizophrenia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68966-6_3
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