International Adoption Information

This is a reference list of research related to Chinese Adoption.

Adams, G., Tessler, R., & Gamache, G. (2005). The development of ethnic identity among Chinese adoptees: Paradoxical effects of school diversity. Adoption Quarterly, 8(3), 25-45.

Centers for Disease Control. (2000). Elevated blood lead levels among internationally adopted children – United States, 1998. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 49(5), 97-100.

China Center of Adoption Affairs, (2005). Adoption Law of the People’s Republic of China. Retrieved March 2, 2005 from http://www.china-ccaa.org/flfg/0112syf-english.htm.

Freundlichm, M. (2002). Adoption research: An assessment of empirical contributions to the advancement of adoption practice. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 11(2), 143-166.

Graham, M., Larsen, U., & Xu, X. (1998). Son preference in Anhui Province, China. International Family Planning Perspectives, 24(2), 72-77.

Gunner, M. R., Van Dulmen, M. H., and the International Adoption Project Team. (2007). Behavior problems in postinstitutionalized internationally adopted children. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 129-148.

Hollingsworth, L. and M. Ruffin, V. (2002). Why are so many U.S. families adopting internationally? A social exchange perspective. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 6(1), 81-97.

Johnson, K., Banghan, H., & Liyao, W. (1998). Infant abandonment and adoption in China. Population and Development Review, 24(3), 469-510.

Lee, R. M. (2003). The transracial adoption paradox: History, research, and counseling implications of cultural socialization. The Counseling Psychologist, 31(6), 711-744.

Lihua, H. (2001). Chinese adoption: Practices and challenges. Child Welfare, 80(5), 529-540.

Lin, S. H., Cermak, S., Coster, W. J., & Miller, L. (2005). The relation between length of institutionalization and sensory integration in children adopted form Eastern Europe. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(2),

Liu, J., Larsen, U., & Wyshak, G. (2004). Factors affecting adoption in China, 1950-1987. Population Studies, 58(1), 21-36.

Luo, N. & Bergquist, K. J. S. (2004). Born in China: Birth country perspectives on international adoption. Adoption Quarterly, 8(1), 21-39.

Miller, L. C. (2005). Immediate behavioral and developmental considerations for internationally adopted children transitioning to families. Pediatric Clinics of America, 52, 1311-1330.

Miller, L., Chan, W., Comfort, K., & Tirella, L. (2005). Health of children adopted from Guatemala: Comparison of orphanage and foster care. Pediatrics, 115, 710-717.

Miller, L. C. & Hendrie, N. W. (2000). Health of children adopted from China. Pediatrics,105(6). Available www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/105/6/e76.

Nickman, L. L., Rosenfeld, A. A., Fine, P., Macintyre, J. C., Pilowsky, D. J., Howe, R., et al. (2005). Children in adoptive Families: Overview and update. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(10), 987-995.

O,Connor, T. G., Bredenkamp, D., Rutter, M., & The English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) Study Team. (1999). Attachment disturbances and disorders in children exposed to early severe deprivation. Infant Mental Health Journal, 20(1), 10-29.

Rojewski, J. W. (2005). A typical American family? How adoptive families acknowledge and incorporate Chinese cultural heritage in their lives. Children and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 22(2), 133-164.

Saiman, L., Aronson, J., Zhou, J., Gomez-Duarte, C., Gabriel, P., Alonso, M., Maloney, S., & Schulte, J. (2001). Prevalence of infectious diseases among internationally adopted children. Pediatrics, 108, 608-612.

Schulpen, T. W. J., van Seventer, A. H. J. Rumke, H. C., and van Loon, A. M. (2001). Immunization status of children adopted from China. (Research Letters) (Brief Article). The Lancet, 358(9299), 2131.

Tan, T. X. (2005). Language development of Chinese adoptees 18-35 months old. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 20, 57-68.

U. S. Department of State. (2004, December 14). One-Child Policy in China. Testimony before the House International Relations Committee (Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration. Retrieved March 7, 2005 form http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/39823.htm.

van IJzendoorn, M. H. and Juffer, F. (2006). The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 2006: Adoption as intervention. Meta-analytic evidence for massive catch-up and plasticity in physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47 (12), 1228-1245.

Verhulst, F. C., Althaus, M., & Bieman, V. (1990). Problem behavior in international adoptees I: An epidemiological Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(1). 94-103.

Verhulst, F. C., Althaus, M., & Bieman, V. (1990). Problem behavior in international adoptees II: Age at placement. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(1). 104-111.

Wallace, S. R. (2003). International adoption: The most logical solution to the disparity between the numbers of orphaned and abandoned children in some countries and families and individuals wishing to adopt in others? Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 20(3), 689-724.

Weitzman, C. & Albers, L. (2005). Long-term developmental, behavioral, and attachment outcomes after international adoption. Pediatric Clinics of America, 52, 1395-1419.