Question

One study (Golombok et al., 2001) investigated the socioemotional development of children in three types of families: families created by in vitro fertilization, adopted families, and naturally conceived families. What were the findings of the study?

Answer 1

Answer: The findings show that: there were no differences between the three types of families on any of the measures of children's socioemotional development.

Explanation:  It is not the structure of the family per se that influences the socioemotional well‐being of children in different family forms. Perhaps, the quality of parent–child relationships, the quality of parents' relationships with each other, and the quality of the wider social environment appear to be more predictive of children's adjustment. Whether children have one parent or two, whether they have a genetic or gestational link to their parents, whether their parents are married or cohabiting, whether their parents are male or female, and whether their parents are of the same sex or opposite sex seem to matter less for children than does the quality of family life