Much is hypothesised but little is known about the effects of early adversity on school experience, academic attainment and career aspiration for children and young people adopted from care.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Boomerang Kids and Parents’ Well-Being: Adaptation, Stressors, and Social Norms (2019) · doi

  However, little is known about parental adaptation to changes in living arrangements or about concomitant stressors that may moderate the effect of adult children returning to the parental home.

  Keywords: parental little known adaptation changes living arrangements concomitant stressors moderate effect adult children returning home
• The educational aspirations and psychological well-being of adopted young people in the UK (2019) · doi

  Much is hypothesised but little is known about the effects of early adversity on school experience, academic attainment and career aspiration for children and young people adopted from care.

  Keywords: hypothesised little known effects early adversity school experience academic attainment career aspiration children young people
• Multidimensionality of Well-Being and Spillover Effects Across Life Domains: How Do Parenthood and Personality Affect Changes in Domain-Specific Satisfaction? (2017) · doi

  However, little is known about how becoming parent may produce vulnerability—observable as an enduring decrease in well-being—in life domains that are strongly interdependent with the family domain, such as work and leisure.

  Keywords: little known becoming parent produce vulnerability observable enduring decrease well life domains strongly interdependent family