In general, adoption is thought to be a successful social arrangement both for the adopting parents and the child, but this success can sometimes appear less obvious when the infant is shown later to be abnormal, especially in mental development. Most people who adopt do so because they cannot have children of their own. When they adopt they wish to adopt a normal child and are apt to be disapp...

The practice of adoption, though long accepted as a social phenomenon, is only recently gaining popularity in India. Due to the paucity of adequate follow-ups, evaluation of these adopted children is incomplete. For the purpose of studying the well-being of these children after adoption, they were followed-up at the various places, i.e., orphanages, institutions, juvenile courts and adoption ag...

OBJECTIVE to analyze conceptions of nurses on child health surveillance in family health units. METHOD a qualitative study with thematic analysis of the data, based on the paradigm of Health Surveillance. Interviews were conducted with 13 nurses in a countryside city in the state of Sao Paulo. RESULTS nurses conceived child health surveillance as an active monitoring, which should be compre...

QUESTION One of the families in my practice is considering adoption of a 2-year-old child from the former Soviet Union. The family has been reassured by the agency that a doctor will examine the child to rule out developmental delays. However, my understanding from your previous articles is that one cannot rule out fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) at that age. Are these children at increa...

Although the right to health care is not written into the U.S. Constitution, moral and ethical tenets govern the delivery of optimal medical care universally and across the life continuum. Pertaining to children, in accordance with the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and the United Nations Human Rights General Assembly adoption of the Rights of the Child in 1959, parents o...

Reports from geneticists have stated that prospective adoptive parents and adoption agencies are requesting a wider range of genetic tests before, during, or immediately after the adoption process. It is possible that certain children who are determined to have various harmful or undesirable genetic predispositions or characteristics will have a difficult time being adopted or, if adopted, will...

This paper investigates whether the impact of children on labor market outcomes women relative to men—child penalties—can be explained by biological links between mother and child. We estimate child penalties in adoptive families using event studies around arrival almost 40 years adoption data from Denmark. Short-run are slightly larger for mothers than mothers, but their long-run virtually ide...