CHALLENGES IN SCHOOL ADAPTATION AMONG ADOPTED CHILDREN

The essential, if not the dominant part of a child's life, takes place in the school environment as well as an adult's life is spent at work. Therefore, a good relationship at school community and academic achievements are important for a child's general psychological well-being. In addition, aspiration to estimate a child's success on its progress at school is traditional. Perhaps, the most popular questions a child is asked by adults are the ones like, ”How are you doing at school?”, ”How is your study?”, "What are your favorite subjects?", etc. The comparative research of the adaptation process among Belarusian adoptive and biological families allowed us to obtain some information on how parents from both groups evaluate the academic performance of their children, to what extent they are concerned about this issue and how children's school adaptation actually proceeds. The main research group involved 64 adoptive mothers and 50 adoptive fathers. The control group consisted of 62 biological mothers and 49 biological fathers. All parents responded to the specially designed questionnaire.