adoptive home
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadoptiveandhome
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adoptive
adjective[before noun]
uk/əˈdɒp.tɪv/us/əˈdɑːp.tɪv/
An adoptive parent is one who has adopted ...
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home
noun
uk/həʊm/us/hoʊm/
the house, apartment, etc. where you live, especially with ...
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(Definition ofadoptiveandhomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofadoptive home
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Note that age at testing was the sum of age at adoption and time in theadoptivehome.
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Second, time in theadoptivehome, if anything, was associated with increasing rates of behavior problems.
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To obtain a measure of time in theadoptivehome, age at adoption in months was subtracted from age at testing in months.
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In general, time in theadoptivehome, which also reflected age at testing, was positively associated with rates of problem behavior.
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Thus, with each year in theadoptivehome, the children were 1.1 times as likely to be scored in the clinical range on externalizing.
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The availability of these resources in theadoptivehomesupported the development and recovery of the postinstitutionalized children despite their early adverse experiences.
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We chose to include time in theadoptivehomerather than age at testing for the following reasons.
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Thus, with each year in theadoptivehome, children were 1.1 to 1.2 times as likely to be scored in the clinical range on internalizing problems.
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Of note, the amount of time children spent in institutions is correlated with time in theadoptivehome because these children moved directly from orphanage to family environments.
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Most people have a sense of possession and belonging whether they were born in a country or whether it becomes theiradoptivehome.
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It is a shocking fact that a boy over the age of five is unlikely to be adopted even though he is waiting for anadoptivehome.
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Less than forty years later, nearly one-third were in anadoptivehome.
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As can be seen, personality is much more correlated within nonadoptive homes than adoptive homes, indicating the influence of genes on personality.
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Remarkably, these results were evident even following an average of 5.5 years in adoptive homes.
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Another common finding is that both conditions in orphanages and conditions in adoptive homes can modify the amount of cognitive deficit.
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Later, as the children spent more time in their adoptive homes, they added hyperactivity to the distractibility.
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At the time of assessment, children had been in their adoptive homes for an average of 67 months (range = 15 - 113 months).
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There are a number of different techniques that can be used to make the transition from life at a rescue's foster home to anadoptivehomeeasier on the animal.
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The goal is usually to secure each dog anadoptivehomebut if this is not possible, animals are cared for at the sanctuary for the remainder of their lives.
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