Brian Powell, a sociologist at Indiana University, led a team of researchers who studied 13,000 families with children in first grade. Of that group, 161 were two-parent families had adopted children. They scored high on helping children with homework, being involved in their schools, taking children to religious and cultural activities, reading to them, talking over problems with them, and eating meals together.
At first, the researchers believed that adoptive parents spent more time and money on their children because they were older and wealthier than most biological parents included in their study. However, when they reanalyzed the data with the income levels as a factor, the adoptive parents still scored higher, especially compared to single parent and stepparent families.
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