Adoptive Parenting is a form of custodial guardianship in which an adult assumes legal, emotional, and developmental responsibility for a non-biologically related child through formalized institutional or legal processes, distinguishing it from biological or foster parenting arrangements.
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An Adoption Study of Human Obesity
Albert J. Stunkard, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Craig L. Hanis et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1986 · 1.3K citations
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VITA: life in a zone of social abandonment
Choice Reviews Online · 2006 · 1.2K citations
Maternal Inheritance of Alcohol Abuse
Michael Bohman · Archives of General Psychiatry · 1981 · 463 citations
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