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ERIC Number: EJ544990
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Young Children's Understanding of a Biological Basis for Parent-Offspring Relations.
Springer, Ken
Child Development, v67 n6 p2841-56 Dec 1996
Results of two experiments indicated that preschoolers expected adopted babies to share physical properties, but not preferences with their biological parents; and recognized that a baby who looks like and lives with a woman but who grew inside another woman's body is not the first woman's baby. (BC)
Descriptors: Adoptive Parents, Biological Parents, Biology, Genetics, Kinship, Knowledge Level, Parent Child Relationship, Physical Characteristics, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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