Please read part 1 of this blog series to understand the context of the Minnesota International Adoption Report.

Back to the summary:

Perceived discrimination:

In this study, the researcher acknowledged that many studies on psychological issue in children adopted internationally have been focused on their PI issues, and how resiliant children can be when coming from adverse circumstances. This study's focus was on how the experience of being adopted transracially affects children's development and adjustment.

Conclusions: issues of perceived discrimination were as strong as their PI issues when it came to children's development and adjustment. Adoptive families need to be sensitive to the ethnic and racial experiences of internationally adopted children.

Language and International Adoption:

--The rates of language impairments among IA children in 1st through 8th grade were similar to U.S. birth children who didn't have any cognitive or neurological impairment.

From reading this one newsletter it seems to me that the conclusions are pretty favorable when you consider the stressors children who lived a large portion of their lives in an institution undergo.