Adoption Status and Parental Investments: A Within-sibling Approach.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have found that adoptive parents invest in their children equally or more than biological parents do. Most of these studies observed relationships across families, comparing families with adopted children to those without. In this study, alternatively, we focused on within-family comparisons to more fully isolate the relationship between biological ties and parental investments. Using American Time Use Survey (2007-2018; n = 1,152 children) and American Community Survey (2014-2018; n = 34,673 children) data, we employed within-family fixed effects regression models and focused on both parental time and financial investments, using private school enrollment as a proxy for the latter. Our findings show that parents spent less one-on-one, quality, and total time d

SUBMITTER: Gibby AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364351 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature