Foster care associated with improved growth, intelligence compared to orphanage care

Socially deprived children removed from orphanages and placed in foster care appear to experience gains in growth and intelligence, catching up to their non-institutionalised peers on many measures, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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