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... 36 / GREGORY CAREY were predicted by the number of convictions among biological fathers and antisocial types of psychiatric disorder in biological mothers. \ Swedish Adoption Study In addition to his study of unwanted pregnancies, Bohman jl978)
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... GENETICS AND VIOLENCE / 3 7 nonsignificant correlation between adoptee conviction and bioTogical parent conviction 13.2 percent of 258 mate adoptees with either a convicted father or a convicted mother were themselves convicted, compared to 10.4 percent of 604 adoptees whose bioTogical parents had not been convicted ~%2i = 1.37, p = NS)
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