Children who join families through the process of adoption often have multiple health care needs. After placement in an adoptive home, it is essential that these children have a timely comprehensive health evaluation. This evaluation should include a review of all available medical records and a complete physical examination. Evaluation should also include diagnostic testing based on the findin...

Adopted children who have grown up will certain genitalia boundaries with adoptive parents. This causes the role of parents to not be realized optimally and rights adopted cannot fully fulfilled. Conversely, when do pay attention Islamic values in practice adopting children, this is also strictly prohibited religion, considered very fatal, because it included tabanni during Jahiliyya era. resea...

The present study aimed to characterize beliefs surrounding the sexual and gender development of children adopted by lesbian and gay couples. Participants were 768 Portuguese university students. Using a quasiexperimental design, participants were presented with identical descriptions of a couple interested in adopting a child, manipulating couple sexual orientation and child gender. Participan...

it is a question whether the right to preserve the child’s identity as recognized by the convention on the rights of the child protects only the child who is separated illegality from the birth parents or is also available to the adopted child and the child born of artificial insemination. on one hand, the long experience of deprivation of the adopted child from his origin which causes psycholo...

UNLABELLED This report presents national estimates of the prevalence of adoption for men and women 18-44 years of age, the demand for children to adopt by women, and women's preferences for characteristics of the adopted child. METHODS Analysis is based on data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. This survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of women and men 15-44 yea...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate and compare emotional and behavioral problems in Turkish adoptees and non-adopted peers raised by their biological parents. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 61 adopted children (34 female and 27 male) aged 6-18 years and 62 age- and gender-matched non-adopted children (35 female and 27 male). Parents rated their children's problem behaviors us...