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The article presents a study which compared the prevalence of commonly screened infections in internationally adopted children as a distinct population seen at an international adoption clinic (IAC) by region of adoption. Topics discussed include demographics and testing results by region, overall rate of positive tuberculosis screening, and the decline in the number of children adopted from other countries since the global pandemic.

We investigated the association between adopted Chinese girls’ nighttime sleep problems and adoptive parents’ self-judgment about their parenting. The girls were 1.7–6.9 years old (M= 4.6 years,SD= 1.0) and were adopted at 7–56 months (M= 13.9 months,SD= 6.6) by families in North America. At Wave 2 of a longitudinal study on adopted Chinese children’s development, the adoptive parents provided survey data on bedtime resistance or anxiety and parasomnias in their daughters and their own parental sense of entitlement and parenting competence. Results showed that controlling for child and family demographics, parasomnias, but not bedtime resistance or anxiety, negatively predicted parental sense of entitlement (B= -.13,p< .01) and parenting competence (B= -.14,p< .01). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]