Five years ago, co-author Ashley Albert surrendered her parental rights to two youngest children the State of Washington. She shares story ostensibly "voluntary" surrender, which was anything but voluntary. This Article goes on address practice permanently severing legal bonds between a parent and child, then State's "replacement" those with new ones via formalized adoption. It informs readers ...

Since the idea of Bulgaria joining NATO was launched in public space, the debate has targeted predominantly the political and the military-technical aspects of the issue. The Employers Association of Bulgaria does not underestimate the importance of these factors nonetheless, as a representative of the big domestic private capital, we believe that it is about time to seriously and extensively r...

Adoption is a rather peculiar phenomenon of human society which is almost exclusive to our species, at least so far in how prolific it is. Adoption always involves some altruistic behavior at least initially (Silk 1987:40), and in our modern society it would certainly seem to be just that. Adoption of course is not simply an invention of modern times or western culture though as some may think,...

In the current study, we examined parent gender differences in feelings (negativity and positivity) and perceptions of child behavioural and emotional problems in adoptive and biological parent-child dyads. In a sample of 85 families, we used a novel within-family adoption design in which one child was adopted and one child was a biological child of the couple, and tested whether the links betw...

The Early Growth and Development Study is a prospective adoption study of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children (N=359 triads) that was initiated in 2003. The primary study aims are to examine how family processes mediate or moderate the expression of genetic influences in order to aid in the identification of specific family processes that could serve as malleable targets for i...

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Perinatal smoking presents serious health risks to the fetus, mother, and child. Despite extensive evidence of risk and high rates of smoking among in-treatment perinatal women substance abusers, tobacco-related practice and policy change has not been widely transferred for application in drug abuse treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women. This qualitative study investigated the pro...

Adoption is the legaI process by which the relationship of parent and child is established between persons who are not so related by nature. This article, which is taken from a more detailed statistical report, suggests answers to certain questions about the circumstances under which adoptions take place. Who are the children being adopted? What are their ages, their race, their birth status? W...

Online child pornography is an unintended aspect of the widespread adoption of information and communications technologies. Child pornography involves the sexual abuse of children on a global basis. It appears that a once limited trade has seen remarkable growth, with the potential to intrude into the homes and workplaces of all those connected to the internet. Occasionally, exposure to this fo...

Background. Family-centered care is now practiced throughout the world by physicians, nurses, and allied health care professionals. The call for adoption of family-centered care is based on the contention that the physical and psychological health of a child is influenced by parents' psychological health where family-centered care enhances parent well-being which in turn influences child well-b...