News Finding: New study tracks emotional health of 'surrogate kids'   - Link to Abstract:  #surrogacy
Paper Finding: This may also be true of surrogacy children who similarly have to face up to being different at an early age.
News Context: New study tracks emotional health of 'surrogate kids'   - Link to Abstract:  #surrogacy
Paper Context: Interestingly, the adopted children's behavior problems had reduced by adolescence , as had the behavior problems of the surrogacy children in the present study by age 10. suggested that internationally adopted children struggle with identity issues earlier than domestically adopted children due to their difference in appearance from their parents. This may also be true of surrogacy children who similarly have to face up to being different at an early age. Although the sample sizes were not large and thus small differences between family types may not have been detected, an advantage of the study was that data were collected before the children were aware of their biological origins, allowing the consequences of secrecy versus openness about the nature of their birth to be examined prospectively.