Whitesel, A. L., Dismukes, A., White, D., Guyer, S., Ganiban, J. M., Leve, L. D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2020). The Early Growth & Development Study: Using an Adoption Design to Understand Family Influences and Child Development (Chapter 7). In G. Wrobel, E. Helder, & E. Marr (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Adoption.

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The Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) is a longitudinal study of birth parents and adoptive families recruited from domestic U.S. adoption agencies across the United States beginning in 2002. The EGDS demonstrates many benefits of the adoption design,...

Wang, J., Natsuaki, M. N., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., & Leve, L. D. (2020). Fertility problems and parenting daily hassles in childhood: A 7-year longitudinal study of adoptive parents. Adoption Quarterly, 24, 177-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1837315

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While fertility problems have a negative impact on psychological health, infertile couples often view adoption as a positive healing experience. Yet, a dearth of work has examined the long-term impact that fertility problems have on adoptive parents and their...

Tavalire, H. F., Budd, E. L., Natsuaki, M. N., Neiderhiser, J. M., Reiss, D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., & Leve, L. D. (2020). Using a sibling adoption design to parse genetic and environmental influences on children’s body mass index (BMI). PLOS ONE.15(7):e023626

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Background: Risk for obesity and associated lifelong health consequences begins early in life. Previous research highlights the importance of genetic and environmental contributions to obesity risk, however most studies involve related children reared together....

Sellers, R., Harold, G. T., Thapar, A., Neiderhiser, J. M., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M N., & Leve, L. D. (2020). Examining the role of genetic risk and longitudinal transmission processes underlying maternal parenting and psychopathology and children’s ADHD symptoms and aggression: Utilizing the advantages of a prospective adoption design. Behavior Genetics, 50, 247-262.

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Although genetic factors may contribute to initial liability for ADHD onset, there is growing evidence of the potential importance of the rearing environment on the developmental course of ADHD symptomatology. However, associations between family-level variables...

Ramos, A.M., Marceau, K., Neiderhiser, J. M., Araujo-Greecher, M., Natsuaki, M. N., & Leve, L. D. (2020). Maternal consistency in recalling prenatal experiences at 6-months and 8-years postnatal. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 41, 698-705.

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Objective: Mothers are known to be reliable reporters of smoking during pregnancy, type of delivery, and birth weight when compared to medical records. Few studies have considered whether the timing of retrospective collection impacts the mother’s retrospective...