The transition to adoptive parenthood was investigated in a short-term longitudinal study exploring preadoption/prenatal parental expectations and postadoption/postnatal parental experiences. Ss were 104 Israeli first-time adoptive and biological parent couples. Also investigated was the extent to which individual and contextual antecedents assessed by questionnaires in the expectancy period predicted parental experiences when the infants were 4 months old.
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