A study of children who had spent their first eight months or more in Romanian institutions before being adopted into Canadian homes found that
A) the longer the children spent in orphanage care, the higher their cortisol levels-even 6½ years after adoption.
B) the children had abnormally high levels of oxytocin in their blood, regardless of when they were adopted.
C) children who experienced adequate early nutrition were not negatively affected by early orphanage rearing.
D) depression only appeared in those children who spent more than 2 years in an orphanage.

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The study found that the longer the children spent in orphanage care, the higher their cortisol levels even 6.5 years after adoption. This suggests that early institutional care can have long-lasting effects on the biological stress response system.

A Study of Children Who Had Spent Their First Eight