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Mothers May Suffer Post-Adoption Stress Fed By Expectations, Exhaustion
March 27, 2012 by NewsBot
Fatigue and unrealistic expectations of parenthood may help contribute to post-adoption depression in women, according to a Purdue University study. "Feeling tired was by far the largest predictor of depression in mothers who adopted," said Karen J. Foli, an assistant professor of nursing who studied factors that could predict depression in adoptive mothers...