BACKGROUND Psychological studies found that adopted children suffer from lack of attachment relationships in life. It is important for new parents to understand the underlying concepts before they begin to comprehend behavior issues arising out of different turbulent situations in an adopted child's life. Attachment theory facilitates in comprehending the frame of mind of these children, when t...

Title of Thesis: THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL RACIAL AWARENESS ON TRANSRACIALLY ADOPTED CHILDREN’S SELF-ESTEEM: A MEDIATION MODEL OF RACIAL SOCIALIZATION AND RACIAL IDENTITY Elizabeth Ott, Master of Science, 2013 Thesis Directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science Recent years have seen an increased empirical focus on factors that affect the health and well-being o...

      The French law, contrary to the Iranian law, has given the mother a kind of representation for guardianship and training of the child. This is a development that was established in France in 1970, and in Article 6 of the Iranian Family Protection Act of 2012, the granting of representation to the mother over the legal procedure for demand of the child or the incompetent has been entrusted...

Findings are presented on a U.K. study of 41 gay father families, 40 lesbian mother families, and 49 heterosexual parent families with an adopted child aged 3-9 years. Standardized interview and observational and questionnaire measures of parental well-being, quality of parent-child relationships, child adjustment, and child sex-typed behavior were administered to parents, children, and teacher...

This study examines the consequences of relaxing birth quotas by exploiting an exogenous two-child policy adopted local Chinese governments on different dates. Using China’s 2015 population census combined with a difference-in-differences framework, we find that adoption substantially increases number second-child births. The impact is more pronounced among couples who have higher fertility pre...

1. Describe the changes in the demographic, medical, and developmental characteristics of internationally adopted children. 2. Discuss the role of the pediatrician in assessing information made available to families prior to adoption of a child abroad. 3. List conditions commonly seen in children adopted internationally and characterize their medical, developmental, and social consequences. 4. ...