Foster care associated with improved growth, intelligence compared to orphanage care
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
Socially deprived children removed from orphanages and placed in foster care appear to experience gains in growth and intelligence, catching up to their non-institutionalized peers on many measures, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.