Special 1.D Adoption: Percentage of children ages 0–17 with selected well-being measures by adoptive status and adoption type, 2007

Well-being measure	All children	All adopted children	Adoption type
Well-being measure	All children	All adopted children	Foster care	Domestic private	International
Child (ages 0–5) was read to every day	48	68	66	73	65
Child (ages 6–17) had never repeated a grade	89	84	80	84	89
Child (ages 6–17) exhibited positive social behaviors^a	94	88	83	91	89
Child was continuously insured throughout the year	85	91	94	88	91
Parent reported having this child in my life was as good as or better than expected^b	–	86	82	90	86
– Not available.
^a Children were classified as exhibiting positive social behaviors if their parent reported that their child "usually" or "always" engaged in all four of the following behaviors: "[shows] respect for teachers and neighbors"; "[gets] along well with other children"; "[tries] to understand other people's feelings"; and "[tries] to resolve conflicts with classmates, family, or friends."
^b The parent was asked, "So far, how has having [this child] in your life compared with what you thought it would be like?" Responses included here are those who said that having the child in their life was "better than [I] ever expected" or "about what [I] expected"; excluded are those who responded "more difficult than [I] ever expected."
SOURCE: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and Administration for Children and Families and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS), National Survey of Adoptive Parents; and Maternal and Child Health Bureau and NCHS, SLAITS, National Survey of Children’s Health.