effects of institutionalisation: concise

Physical underdevelopment: children are physically smaller
Gardner (1972): lack of emotional care = cause of deprivation dwarfism rather than lack of…

nourishment

Cognitive underdevelopment: lower IQ due to emotional deprivation,
Rutter found at time of adoption, Romanian adoptees were intellectually…

behind British counterparts

Disinhibited attachment: children don't discriminate between people they choose as attachment figures,
Are… towards strangers

overly friendly

Poor parenting: Quinton et al (1984)
Group of 50 women grew up in…, control group of 50 grown at…
When women in 20s, the ex-institutional women experienced extreme difficulties…
More of ex-institutional women has children who spent time in…

institutions, home, acting as parents, care

Problems with peer…

relationships