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Behavior scores of maltreated children in foster care were compared with those of a homogeneous group of children who had never been in care. Mean scores for foster children were significantly higher than those for controls. After controlling for group differences in family structure and stability, differences in behavior scores between groups were not significant.
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Hulsey et al. (1989) studied this question.
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