Unwanted Infants: Psychological and Physical Consequences of Inadequate Orphanage Care 50 Years Later

Studies of the effects in middle-aged adults of institutionalization at birth or early childhood are rare. The results of this study show that members of a randomly selected, middle-aged group of orphans, most of whom were institutionalized at birth, were significantly more psychosocially dysfunctio...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 2003-01, Vol.73 (1), p.3-12
Main Authors: Sigal, John J, Perry, J. Christopher, Rossignol, Michel, Ouimet, Marie Claude
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Child care
Child welfare
Childhood
Childhood Development
Children
Chronic Disease
Chronic Illness
Cohort Studies
Consequence
Consequences
Depression
Female
Foster Home Care - psychology
Human
Humans
Incidence
Institutionalization
Lack of care
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - etiology
Mental Health
Mental illness
Middle Aged
Middle aged people
Mood disorders
Orphanages
Orphans
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychophysiological aspects
Psychosocial Development
Random Allocation
Stress, Psychological
Unwanted pregnancy
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Summary:Studies of the effects in middle-aged adults of institutionalization at birth or early childhood are rare. The results of this study show that members of a randomly selected, middle-aged group of orphans, most of whom were institutionalized at birth, were significantly more psychosocially dysfunctional and had significantly more chronic illnesses that could be stress related than a randomly selected, matched community sample.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/0002-9432.73.1.3