title: Adoption of romanian children in The Netherlands: behavior problems and parenting burden of upbringing for adoptive parents.
abstract: Seventy-two Dutch adoptive parents of 80 Romanian children completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the Nijmegen Questionnaire for the Upbringing Situation (NQUS), and participated in a semistructured interview (response 83%). Thirty-four percent of the adopted children scored in the clinical range on Externalizing and 36 % on Total Problems scales. Significantly more children who were at least two years at placement and had stayed less than five years in the adoptive family received scores in the clinical range on almost all CBCL clinical clusters. Nevertheless, the adoptive parents judge their upbringing situation positive (NQUS).
authors.affiliation: Adoption Department, Faculty Social Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. r.hoksbergen@fss.uu.nl
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoksbergen
authors.forename: Kathinka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rijk
authors.forename: Cor
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Van Dijkum
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ter Laak
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000208:ethnology*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012383:Romania / Q000208:ethnology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires