A mentally handicapped child can add something positive and cohesive to many family units. Dr. Joan Bicknell, a child psychiatrist, wants us and the adoption societies to rethink our attitude towards these children and the parents who keep them at home. A young couple wanted to have a family. They Were happily married, with a stable financial background and no history of serious illness in eith...

Infertility has serious consequences especially in Africa where a high premium is place on child bearing. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was administered on 396 consenting women seeking infertility treatment at the gynaecological clinic of the University College Hospital, Ibadan in an attempt to assess the attitude of infertile women in Nigeria to child adoption and its acceptability...

Previous research has continuously identified a need for comprehensive model of working with first mothers in adoption. This gap knowledge hindered the development services, to detriment quality life and well-being this group. study seeks remedy deficiency by exploring lived experiences Irish who have lost child through closed It aims expand understanding impact such loss, particular how it aff...

Title of Dissertation: THE INFLUENCE OF DISCREPANCIES IN ADOLESCENT-PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE FAMILY ON ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES IN TRANSRACIALLY ADOPTIVE FAMILIES Katie Marie Hrapczynski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Leigh Leslie Department of Family Science Transracial adoption creates a family in which the adoptive parent or parents are of a different r...

This paper examines the Kalam cosmological argument, as put forward by William Craig. Craig infers the existence of a personal God from the supposedly finite past of the universe. The temporal finiteness of the universe is based upon philosophical arguments for the presumed impossibility of an actual infinity of past events and is confirmed by two lines of scientific evidence. The arguments aga...

LIGO has completed a series of observations searching for evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. There has been no detection to date. However the sensitivity of the observations is approaching the Big Bang nucleosynthesis bound. Future observations will provide information that bounds a number of early Universe models of stochastic gravitational waves.

An upper limit on the masses of scalar superpartners in split supersymmetry is found by considering cosmological constraints on long-lived gluinos. Over most of parameter space, the most stringent constraint comes from big bang nucleosynthesis. A TeV mass gluino must have a lifetime of less than 100 seconds to avoid altering the abundances of D and Li. This sets an upper limit on the supersymme...