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The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is a longitudinal study comparing 136 infants (baseline age range, 8–31 months) who were randomized to institutionalized or foster care. The children were also compared with 72 typically raised, ethnically matched children living at home (JW Psychiatry Feb 11 2008). Now, researchers report on participants' rates of inhibited and disinhibited reactive attachment disorders, which were comprehensively assessed at baseline, at ages 30, 42, and 54 months, and at age 8 years.
Foster families received specialized social worker care. Analyses included the effect of age at placement in foster homes (before or after age 24 months).
Fostered children who were diagnosed at baseline with inhibited attachment disord…