Sorosky Arthur D, Baran Annette, Pannor Reuben
Department of Psychiatry.
Adoption Research Project.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1975 Jan;45(1):18-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01162.x.
A review of the literature, and interviews with a large number of adoptees who have experienced reunions with their birth parents, indicates that adoptees are more vulnerable than the population at large to the development of identity problems in late adolescence and young adulthood.