Adoption Studies Show That the Personalities of Adopted Children

question 146

Multiple Choice

Adoption studies show that the personalities of adopted children

• A) closely match those of their adoptive parents.
• B) bear more similarities to their biological parents than to their adoptive parents.
• C) closely match those of the biological children of their adoptive parents.
• D) closely match those of other children reared in the same home, whether or not

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