romanian orphans

• romanian orphans procedure

  Rutter and sonuga barke followed 165 infants adopted by british families who had previously been in romanian orphanages. They were tested at regular intervals (4,6,11,15) to assess their physical cognitive and social development. Compared with a control group of 52 adopted british children . They gathered info using interviews with parents and teachers.
• findings of romanian orphans studies

  • At the time of adoption they lagged behind british counterpart in all measures of physical, social and cognitive development
  • By four children who adopted before the age of six months were at the same level as the British children
  • age of adoption was key in the developmental progress made
  • Developmental deficits persisted in individuals who were institutionalised after the age of six months
  •  and Consequences more severe in those adopted after 6 months as they had missed the opportunity to form attachments. Causing issues such as disinhibited attachments
• consequences

  • physical underdevlopment physically small due to malnourishment but also lack of emotional care-cause deprivation dwarfism (gardner's research)
  • disinhibited attahcment -
  • a form of insecure atathcment where an attachment disorder where a child displays indiscriminate, overly friendly, clingly behaviour towards strangers
  • intellectual underfunctioning-slower cognitive development due to emotional deprivation
  • poor parenting- quinton institurtionalised comapred with normal women had severe difficulties in parenting-harlow monkeys raised with a surrogate mother had difficulties