The phrase "adoptions studies" is not correct in English; it should be "adoption studies." You can use it when discussing research that examines the effects of adoption on individuals or families.
Example: "Recent adoption studies have shown that children placed in loving homes tend to thrive academically and emotionally."
Alternatives: "adoption research" or "studies on adoption".
Adoption studies comparing adopted children whose biological parents had the illness with those whose parents did not can also be useful in separating biological from environmental influences.
The items used in this research are adopted from previous innovation and adoption studies.
Adoption studies have also shown that malnourished children adopted into wealthier households during their first few years of life experience substantial catch-up in linear growth.
Furthermore, the classic adoption studies demonstrate higher suicide rates in the biological parents than in adoptive parents of adoptees who died by suicide [ 13, 15].
But researchers in France noted a shortcoming in these adoption studies and set out to correct it.
Family, twin, and adoption studies provide strong evidence to support an important genetic contribution.
In time, it is likely we'll be able to directly account for more and more of the heritability indicated by twin, family and adoption studies.
In addition to the twin and adoption studies, she cites research showing that teaching kids to eat right in school, and serving them leaner lunches, has no effect on their weights.
He cites a variety of twin and adoption studies showing that genetics swamps parenting on traits ranging from children's health and intelligence to their chances of going to prison.
Twin, family and adoption studies have been around a long time and provide a very consistent message – almost all behavioural characteristics, including mental health outcomes, are heritable to a greater or lesser degree: genetics and environment working in concert.
