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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Adolescent Mothers in a Transitional Living Facility: An Exploratory Study of Support Networks and Attachment Patterns
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Schwartz, Ann E.; McRoy, Ruth G.; Downs, A. Chris – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
Most of the research literature on attachment and adolescent transitions has addressed youth in family settings. This article explores these issues with a sample of 25 pregnant and parenting teens living in a transitional shelter. Using case records and interview data as well as results of standardized measures of depression, self-esteem, child…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy, Parent Child Relationship
Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?
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Wrobel, Gretchen Miller; Grotevant, Harold D.; McRoy, Ruth G. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
The decision to search for birthparents is one that all adopted persons consider. The focus of this study is to describe, for a group of adopted adolescents, who chooses to search and who does not and to explore how search behavior is related to the functioning of the adolescents' adoptive families and adolescents' psychological adjustment.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Parents, Family Relationship
The Emergence of Psychosocial Engagement in Adopted Adolescents: The Family as Context over Time.
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Grotevant, Harold D.; Wrobel, Gretchen Miller; van Dulmen, Manfred H.; McRoy, Ruth G. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2001
Examined psychosocial engagement of adopted adolescents as a function of longitudinal patterns of stability and change in parents' perceptions of the child's compatibility within the family. Identified five patterns of stability and change in compatibility. Found that a sense of compatibility within the family is related to the emergence of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents
Adaptive Behavior in Adopted Children: Predictors from Early Risk, Collaboration in Relationships within the Adoptive Kinship Network, and Openness Arrangements.
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Grotevant, Harold D.; Ross, Nicole M.; Marchel, Mary Ann; McRoy, Ruth G. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Examined links between early risk and problematic developmental outcomes in adopted children during middle childhood. Found no direct relation between prenatal, perinatal, or preplacement risk factors and problematic socioemotional adjustment. With 12 high-risk children, proactive cooperation among the child's adoptive and birth family members on…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, At Risk Persons