Author Question: Research has shown that, compared to children being raised by two genetic parents, adopted children ... (Read 144 times)

lindiwe · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Research has shown that, compared to children being raised by two genetic parents, adopted children

a. receive more investment from their adoptive parents.
b. receive more preschool education, private tutoring, summer school, rent, and personal loans from their adoptive parents.
c. have psychological outcomes that are often less positive than those of biologicalchildren.
d. receive about as much investment from their adoptive parents as from stepparents.

Question 2

Studies of numerous cultures have fund all of the following to be true of stepparents except

a. they spend more time trying to interact with stepchildren than their biological children.
b. they spend less money on education for stepchildren than their biological children.
c. the presence of a stepparent in a family is the single best predictor of child abuse.
d. they report that it is difficult to form close emotional bonds with their stepchildren.