1. Describe the changes in the demographic, medical, and developmental characteristics of internationally adopted children. 2. Discuss the role of the pediatrician in assessing information made available to families prior to adoption of a child abroad. 3. List conditions commonly seen in children adopted internationally and characterize their medical, developmental, and social consequences. 4. ...

Margaret Kornitzer. The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d. Margaret Gill's delightful illustrations make this a pleasant book to hand to any young child. The pictures convey the spirit of the text which describes an ordinary couple and the way they adopted two children to complete their family. Even the social worker is shown in a sympathetic light and the subject of adoption is treated without sentimentalit...

BACKGROUND Acknowledgement/rejection of adoption related differences and communication about adoption are two of the most important features of  adoptive family dynamics. The present study focuses on the role played by these two variables on the adoptees’ emotion regulation. METHOD The adoptive parents of 70 school-aged children participated in the study. RESULTS Data showed that...

Intercountry adoptions from Guatemala were highly controversial, because of the large numbers of children being adopted to the USA, along with evidence of corruption and child theft. Since the implementation of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption in 2008, Guatemala's central authority for adoption has prioritized domestic placements for children over intercountry adoption. A possible ...

by reducing the growth rate and aging population countries, communities population has become a controversial issue. this subject has led many thinkers to understand the factors influencing fertility decline. understanding the quality of fertility reduction and family change requires to understand the status of women which is a result of global changes. because women as one of the pillars of th...

This study examines the consequences of relaxing birth quotas by exploiting an exogenous two-child policy adopted local Chinese governments on different dates. Using China’s 2015 population census combined with a difference-in-differences framework, we find that adoption substantially increases number second-child births. The impact is more pronounced among couples who have higher fertility pre...

Adoption of a child is the transfer from biological parents to adoptive parents, where responsibility also shifts person who adopted him. However, there are discrepancies in adoption process as happened Tanjung Medan Village area, South Labuhanbatu Regency, this case people adopt many 14 families, 5 families take action terminate kinship relationship between child's parents. with his son. This ...

The UF College of Law has a course entitled Economics of the Family. Developed as part of the Family Law Certificate Program, the class covers the quantitative aspects of Family Law: alimony, child support, distribution of property, marriage contracts, social security, child care and elder care costs, adoption expenses, education expenses, heart balm actions, the tax consequences of each topic,...

In this paper we investigate whether the differential evolution of child labor across Brazilian states between 1980 and 2000 can be explained by their different patterns of specialization in industries where children have a comparative advantage. We find that the adoption of different industries mixes by different states accounts for 20% to 30% of the observed variation in child labor in rural ...