OBJECTIVE Pay-for-performance programs are used to promote improved health care quality, often through increased use of health information technology. However, little is known about whether pay-for-performance programs influence the adoption of health information technology, especially among child health providers. This study explored how various pay-for-performance compensation methods are rel...

The research deals with experiencing infertility and its consequences in the adoption of a child and focuses on infertile couples that have wished to adopt a child and joined a program preparing them to be foster parents. The results show that most of the infertile couples experience infertility very much as being different from couples with children as well as having to cope with the feelings ...

Child abuse is underreported. The author, a child protective service professional with extensive field and management experience, provides his perspective on some of the barriers that inhibit an effective response to reporting and collaboration between the professionals evaluating and investigating possible child abuse. Then presented are his ideas for improving the collaboration, including rec...

Japan has no legislation regulating artificial reproductive technology. In surrogate birth, social parents may only register a legal relationship with the child in the Japanese family register, the koseki, using the three current categories of parent-child relationship in Japanese family law: natural, ordinary adoption and special adoption. In 2007, Japan’s Supreme Court dashed the hopes of Jap...

Since the Adoption Legislation of 1926 the number of adopted children has increased from 2,967 (in 1927) to over 17,000 in 1949. Little has been published however in this country on the subject (though there is a long list of American publications) and Miss Kornitzer's comprehensive study is therefore a very welcome contribution to our meagre literature. The striking increase in the number of c...

Every year, a large number of children in the United States enter the foster care system. Many of them are eventually reunited with their biological parents or quickly adopted. A significant number, however, face long-term foster care, and some of these children are eventually adopted by their foster parents. The decision by foster parents to adopt their foster child carries significant economi...

The promotion of livestock production is widely believed to support enhanced diet quality and child nutrition, but the empirical evidence for this causal linkage remains narrow and ambiguous. This study examines whether adoption of improved dairy cow breeds is linked to farm-level outcomes that translate into household-level benefits including improved child nutrition outcomes in Uganda. Using ...

Over 400,000 children in the United States are currently in foster care, many of whom are at risk for long-lasting emotional and health problems. Research suggests that adoption may be one of the more promising options for the placement of these children. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, which provided federal funds for monthly adoption subsidies, was designed to promote a...