Samara <pangs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/studies/SchechterOAC.htm
>
>Marshall D. Schechter, "Observations on Adopted Children," 1960
>
> Marshall Schechter, a psychiatrist in private practice in Beverly
>Hills, California, re****ted in 1960 that adoptees were 100 times more
>likely than non-adoptees to present a range of serious emotional
>problems. Like a number of other contributions to the psychopathology
>literature, Schechter's re****t was based on a tiny number of cases. He
>presented information about 120 children seen in his practice between
>1948 and 1953, of whom exactly sixteen (or 13.3 percent) were adopted.
>Since adoptees numbered less than one-tenth of one percent in the
>general population, adopted children were greatly over-represented in
>his practice. Schechter's friend, Povl Toussieng, a child psychiatrist
>at the famous Menninger Clinic, had also told him that up to one-third
>of all children seen as outpatients at the clinic were adopted.
>Schechter's own observations, confirmed by a trusted colleague, were
>the basis for his conclusion. Adoption had an emotionally damaging
>impact on child development.
Oh dear god!
Sound conclusion, but terrible science. A sample of 16 is irrelevant.
You need details of the research which are peer reviewable and
repeatable in order to have any credence.
Matt
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