Adaptations to adoptive parenthood.

This project studied the parental self-picture of adopters, processes of adjustment to adoption, assessment of adjustment, and adopters’ attitudes regarding racially mixed adoptions. The adopters had been unable to procreate their families, and in this respect were different from natural parents. Some adopters might be conscious of this difference, while others might- feel that the adoptive family approximates the natural. These feelings of “sameness” or “difference” were thought to affect the adopters’ adaptability to adoption