Identity conflicts in adoptees.
A review of the literature, and interviews with a large number of adoptees who have experienced reunions with their birth parents, indicates that adoptees are more vulnerable than the population at large to the development of identity problems in late adolescence and young adulthood.
D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D005190:Family; D005201:Fantasy; D005789:Genealogy and Heraldry; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D007063:Identity Crisis; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D012649:Self Concept