Articolo del 2017 in cui si illustrano i risultati della ricerca sui bambini degli istituti Romeni inseriti in famiglie adottive o affidatarie, paragoando gli effetti della vita in istituto e di quella in famiglia.

Current Opinion in Psychology Volume 15, June 2017, Pages 182-188

Alternatives for abandoned children: insights from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Author links open overlay panel Charles H Zeanah 1
Kathryn LHumphreys2Nathan AFox3Charles ANelson45
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.02.024
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Highlights

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BEIP is the first ever RCT comparing foster care to institutional care for young children.
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Institutional rearing led to substantial developmental compromises across almost all domains.
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FCG children made significant gains compared to CAUG children.
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Timing of placement into families was critical for selected domains of development.
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Recovery from early deprivation was incomplete for most domains of development.
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Key recovery factors were earlier placement, and quality of care and stability of placements.

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is the first and only randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for orphaned and abandoned children. Across various domains of brain and behavioral development we demonstrated that children in families developed more favorably than children in institutions, that foster care remediates some but not all compromises associated with institutional placement and that earlier placement in foster care leads to more developmental gains in some but not all domains. In addition to early placement, higher quality of care provided and more stable placements for children all enhanced outcomes. These results have important implications for science, practice and policy.