Here are some interesting links:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090525062253AAENMyT
"From personal experience working in RTCs (which is hardly scientific, but whatever) it was odd to have a child in there who -wasn't- adopted."
http://www.amfor.net/statistics.html#ADOPTEES
ADOPTEES
o The number of
Serial Killers who are adopted is disproportionate to the general population who are serial killers.
o TWICE as many adopted killers are in the category of
Adoptees Who Killed Their Adopters.
60-85% of internees at Coldwater Canyon Center For Personal Development,
����� psychiatric facility are adoptees; most are referrals from Juvenile Probation Dept.
������� -Dr. Lee Bloom, Former Unit Director
��������� Coldwater Canyon Hospital, Hollywood, CA; reported in
�������� "Growing Up Behind Locked Doors,"
Rolling Stone magazine, 11-20-86.
20-35% of internees at several hundred private psychiatric hospitals in 13 regions
�������� were adoptees.
�������� -Betty Jean Lifton, American Adoption Congress conference, 1988,
��������� from a report by an Illinois doctor.
70% of internees at a Monroe, Washington psychiatric facility were adoptees.
�������� -Reported to American Adoption Congress conference,
���������� 1988 by Washington Adoptee Rights Movement (WARM)
����������� attended by a Monroe counselor.
5-15% of patient load in mental clinics is the average reported figure for adoptees
������� under psychiatric care, although official (govt.) stats estimate only 2% of U.S.
������� population are adoptees. (Theory: a child's ignorance of his past causes
������� "genealogical bewilderment" [and so is] prone to dysfunction.)
12% of adolescents and children in private therapy are adopted;
20-30% of adolescents and children in psychiatric in-patient units are adoptees;
������� -
An Open Adoption, Lincoln Caplan, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY,
��������� as cited in
Bottom Line, 9-15-90
14% of adoptees end up in therapy, and
40% of adoptees end up in schools for disturbed children
��������� (of the estimated 2% of the population who are adoptees).
������� -Dr. Steven Nickman as quoted by Dr. Phyllis Chesler in
�������� Scared Bond (
Geraldo show transcript #225, 7-28-88)
40% of psychiatric internees surveyed were adoptees;
�������� adopted children have a higher rate of emotional and
�������� psychological problems than the general population of youngsters
����������� -
Mothers On Trial, Dr. Phyillis Chesler,
������������ quoting Dr. William Murdoch, child psychologist at
������������ Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and
����������� Director, Charter Hospital-Redlands Child In-Patient Unit
13% of 69 firesetters were adoptees compared to a
������� control group of non-firesetters which had only 3% adoptees.
��������� -Dr. Wayne S. Wooden and Dr. Martha Lou Berkey,
��������� a study of youthful firesetters in the San
��������� Bernadino County, CA, Juvenile Justice System
45% of all 602's (felonies committed by juveniles) are by adoptees.
�� -Interstate Compact On Children, as reported by June Idler,
���� Juvenile Compact, Riverside County Juvenile Probation Dept, 1988
20% of adolescents in drug rehabilitation and residential substance abuse
����� treatment programs are adopted.
������� -Center For Adoptive Families.
Adoptees Who Kill
"I'm afraid to get angry."
-(Quote by Attorney Donald Humphrey, an adoptee, regarding male adoptees' inability to express emotion)
16% of 500 serial killers are adoptees.
-- FBI statistics -
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_s.htm
14% of 225 serial killers are adoptees
-- Dr. Mike Aamodt, Radford University
Web pages at
http://www.amfor.net/prisoners/ &
http://www.adoptedkillers.com provide a name and face to adoptees who have killed including Serial Killers, Adoptees Who Kill Their Adopters. Chosen Children, a free 300-page e-book at
http://www.amfor.net/chosenchildren/ contains in-depth research on Serial Killers, the majority of whom are Adoptees, as well as unscripted narratives incarcerated adoptees (drug addicts, thieves, murderers, a child molester), and what makes their crimes unique to adoptees.
As with any stress, adoption can affect different people in different ways and to different degrees. Male adoptees appear to deal with their feelings of rejection with more rage and aggression than do females. The ultimate expression of such rage is an act of violence, even murder. In 1997, one 100 children under age 10 were charged with murder (Frontline, PBS, 12-16-97); "tough on crime" politicos seek to prosecute them as adults and claim they are "genetically defective."
Adoption really is a great thing,
Quest
