ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on long-term real-life outcomes for the children in the Texas Adoption Project (TAP) families, as distinguished from the measurements of abilities and personality. The distinction is not absolute but there is a difference in emphasis. The chapter begins with two broad topics, academic achievement and psychopathology/problem behavior, and describes addressing occupational outcomes, personal relationships, and happiness. The TAP has several kinds of evidence related to academic achievement. There is information on the level of education achieved by the adoptive parents, some of the birth fathers, the birth mother and her parents, and the biological and adopted children themselves. The chapter presents the data files intelligence quotient and minnesota multiphasic personality inventory data for both the mothers who gave birth to and the parents who reared the adopted children, and likewise for the biological children—for whom the birth and rearing parents were the same.
