The Haiti earthquake has renewed debate about inter-country adoption. In the early 1990s, international attention focused on Romanian orphans. Unlike orphans of natural disasters, these infants had no prior experience of family; profound emotional and social deprivation were defining features of their pre-adoption existence.
More than 300 such children were adopted into English families, 165 of whom formed the sample for this study, which reviewed progress at ages six, 11 and 15. This brief, highly readable account considers practice and policy implications from the clinical findings, focusing on key psychological and developmental effects of institutional deprivation, prognosis for improvement and the impact of and on the families themselves.
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