From the Chicago Tribune:

Adolescents who were adopted as infants are significantly more likely to have a psychiatric disorder as those who were not adopted, a study released Monday has found.

While emphasizing that most of the adoptees in the study were psychologically healthy and faring well, the researchers said that as a group they faced a greater risk for two psychiatric conditions: attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.

… [Lead study author Margaret Keyes of the University of Minnesota] stressed that the study should not alarm adoptive parents. Being born male—adopted or not—also is a risk factor for disruptive behavior disorders, she noted, “but no one is overly concerned when they give birth to a son.”

The study was published in the May issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

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