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Definition of Adoptees
1. adoptee [n] - See also: adoptee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoptees
Literary usage of Adoptees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Schizophrenia, 1993: A Special Report edited by David Shore, Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"In the Copenhagen study, 34 adoptees were identified who the investigators ...
Since then, the same research team examined adoptees outside of Copenhagen ..."
2. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"were found between the two groups of adoptees. The data from studies of female
adoptees are thus mixed in implicating genetic influences in the development ..."
3. Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Interventions edited by Rebecca S. Ashery, Elizabeth B. Robertson, Karol L. Kumpfer (2000)
"parents or (2) adoptees who lack a parental history of substance abuse are reared
in homes of parents with substance abuse. Such studies can determine the ..."
4. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2000)
"A population of adoptees. Archives of General Psychiatry, 35, 269—276. ...
Predisposition to petty criminality in Swedish adoptees: I. Genetic and ..."
5. Research on Alcohol and Alcoholism (1993)
"characteristics of both biological and adoptive parents in influencing the risk
of alcohol abuse in adoptees (Bohman et al. 1981, 1984; Cloninger et al. ..."
6. Alcohol and Health: Seventh Special Report to the Us Congress by Louis Sullivan (1997)
"(1973), the Swedish studies found no correlation of alcohol dependence between
adoptive parents and adoptees. It must be noted that some authors have found ..."
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