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Leo, Jonathan. "Schizophrenia Adoption Studies." PLoS Medicine 3, no. 8 (August 29, 2006): e366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030366.

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Sweetman, Sarah L. "Adoption Studies in Cultural Studies." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 198–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0007.

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Ingraham, Loring J., and Seymour S. Kety. "Adoption studies of schizophrenia." American Journal of Medical Genetics 97, no. 1 (2000): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(200021)97:1<18::aid-ajmg4>3.0.co;2-l.

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Tienari, Pekka J., and Lyman C. Wynne. "Adoption Studies of Schizophrenia." Annals of Medicine 26, no. 4 (January 1994): 233–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/07853899409147896.

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McKee, Kimberly. "Korean Adoption Studies Bibliography." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 177–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0016.

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Hübinette, Tobias. "East Asian Adoption Studies." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0009.

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Andrews, Allan Roy. "Adoption." Theology Today 58, no. 2 (July 2001): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057360105800212.

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Sánchez-Sandoval, Yolanda, Natalia Jiménez-Luque, Sandra Melero, Violeta Luque, and Laura Verdugo. "Support Needs and Post-Adoption Resources for Adopted Adults: A Systematic Review." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 6 (October 5, 2019): 1775–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz109.

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Abstract Post-adoption services provide guidance to adoptive families concerning common and specific circumstances. Despite adoption is a lifelong experience, most of the post-adoption resources are oriented towards children, adolescents and their adoptive parents. However, it is also necessary to focus on the demands and interventions with adult adoptees. The aim of this article is to review adult adoptees’ demands for post-adoption resources, applicants’ characteristics and resources offered to them. A systematic search was conducted in several databases, finding forty studies that fulfilled the selection criteria (about adults, domestic/international adoptions and published between 2005 and 2018). The included studies showed mainly three needs: contact with birth family, ethnic identity and birth culture, and psychological support. Additionally, adoptees who demand post-adoption resources are a heterogeneous group. This review collects structured programmes focused on different topics: search for origins, attachment development and professionals’ training in adoption. In addition, we also found some specific post-adoption services and other tools, such as support groups or cultural events. Finally, adoptees also have access to other resources that are not specifically for them, such as mental health services. The scarce existence of evidence-based interventions is an important weakness in this work. Recommendations for future research and practice are included.
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Bordo, Susan. "Adoption." Hypatia 20, no. 1 (2005): 230–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00380.x.

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Ballantyne, Darcy P. Y. "Performing Adoption and Adopting Identities inReconstruction." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 18, no. 2 (January 2003): 259–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2003.10815307.

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John McLeod. "Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Inquiry." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 1 (2018): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.26818/adoptionculture.6.1.0206.

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Kringlen, Einar. "Adoption studies in functional psychosis." European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 240, no. 6 (June 1991): 307–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02279758.

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McLeod, John. "Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Inquiry." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 1 (2018): 206–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2018.0011.

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Lim, Sungyun. "Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea." positions: asia critique 29, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 495–521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8978321.

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Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea. As adopting agnatic kin for the purpose of family succession was deemed the only legitimate form of adoption, significant hurdles existed for other kinds of adoption in Korea. This article examines the history of domestic adoption in Korea and highlights the legal hurdles to domestic adoption. These restrictive adoption customs first originated during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) as a prescription for yangban elite; they were then codified as customary law for all Koreans under Japanese colonial rule (1910–45). The ban on non-agnatic adoption continued in the postcolonial period when it was codified in the new Civil Code of 1960. Multiple legal reforms were attempted since the 1970s to promote domestic adoptions, but change was slow. This article argues that the highly restrictive nature of adoption laws in South Korea produced an adoption regime that existed largely outside of the legal realm.
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del Pozo de Bolger, Andrea, Debra Dunstan, and Melissa Kaltner. "An exploratory study on open adoptions from foster care in NSW, Australia: Adoptees’ psychosocial functioning, adoptive relationships, post-adoption contact and supports." International Social Work 64, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872818808343.

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This is an exploratory study focused on open adoptions from foster care conducted through the public child protection agency in New South Wales, Australia. The results from an online survey completed by 23 respondents indicated that most of the adoptees were reportedly in the normative range of adjustment, had positive relationships with their adoptive parents and had ongoing contact with their birth families. Most of the adoptive parents had received pre-adoption supports to encourage post-adoption contact. These preliminary results are encouraging, but larger and preferably longitudinal studies are needed to guide decision-making regarding adoptions from foster care. The new challenge for the child welfare system is how to collect reliable data about the well-being of children already living in this permanent type of care and how best to support them.
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Bordo, Susan. "Musings: Adoption." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 20, no. 1 (January 2005): 230–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/hyp.2005.20.1.230.

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Andrew, Anita M. "China's Abandoned Children and Transnational Adoption: Issues and Problems for U.S.-China Relations, Adoption Agencies, and Adoptive Parents." Journal of Women's History 19, no. 1 (2007): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2007.0001.

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Tarabrin, Roman. "Ethical Dilemmas of Surrogacy: Christian Discourse in Contemporary Socio-Cultural Context." State Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide 38, no. 4 (2020): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2020-38-4-123-144.

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The article assesses bioethical issues of surrogacy from а Christian perspective and the possibility of adopting a cryopreserved embryo in the current socio-cultural context. Pregnancy of an adopting woman represents only a visible, technical similarity to the surrogacy; it is now commonly called “snowflake adoption.” In fact, such a pregnancy implies a different meaning and different goals. The study considers the following ethical dilemma: an invasion into marital union while using surrogacy for embryo adoption versus the potential death of an embryo in the absence of surrogacy. Any person, as Christian anthropology claims, originates from the first moment of conception. Therefore, respect for personal dignity includes the preservation of life and health at the embryonic stage even in a cryopreserved state. The potential death of a frozen embryo would be considered a more significant ethical evil than the intrusion of an adoptive mother into a marital union. Thus, snowflake adoption can be ethically justified to save a cryopreserved embryo if a woman adopts it and will raise the born child.
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Margaret Homans, Peggy Phelan, Janet Mason Ellerby, Eric Walker, Karen Balcom, Kit Myers, Kim Park Nelson, et al. "Critical Adoption Studies: Conversation in Progress." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.26818/adoptionculture.6.1.0001.

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Park Nelson. "A Decade of Korean Adoption Studies." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 2 (2018): 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.26818/adoptionculture.6.2.0272.

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Tienari, Pekka. "Implications of Adoption Studies on Schizophrenia." British Journal of Psychiatry 161, S18 (October 1992): 52–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000297055.

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It is accepted that schizophrenia runs in families, but whether this relates to genetic or psychosocial transmission is an unanswered question. Kendler (1988) has articulated four testable hypotheses: (a) a general liability to any psychiatric illness (b) a liability to schizotypal functioning — oddness, suspiciousness etc. (c) a liability to broadly defined schizophrenic psychosis, or any functional, non-affective psychosis and (d) a specific liability to narrowly defined schizophrenia, e.g. using DSM-III-R criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). Kendler suggests that neither hypothesis (a) nor (d) is correct, and that the familial predisposition is neither completely non-specific nor highly specific; available results strongly support the second hypothesis and also provide some support in favour of the third.
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Barjak, Franz, Julia Lane, Zack Kertcher, Meik Poschen, Rob Procter, and Simon Robinson. "Case Studies of e-Infrastructure Adoption." Social Science Computer Review 27, no. 4 (April 8, 2009): 583–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439309332310.

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Homans, Margaret, Peggy Phelan, Janet Mason Ellerby, Eric Walker, Karen Balcom, Kit Myers, Kim Park Nelson, et al. "Critical Adoption Studies: Conversation in Progress." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 1 (2018): 1–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2018.0015.

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Gibney, Shannon. "African American and Transracial Adoption Studies." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 116–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0002.

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Macdonald, Sarah. "Sociological and Anthropological Studies of Adoption." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0001.

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Park Nelson, Kim. "A Decade of Korean Adoption Studies." Adoption & Culture 6, no. 2 (2018): 272–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2018.0025.

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Cuthbert, Denise, Kate Murphy, and Marian Quartly. "ADOPTION AND FEMINISM." Australian Feminist Studies 24, no. 62 (December 2009): 395–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164640903289302.

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Savage, Corey, Nicolas Hübner, Martin Biewen, Benjamin Nagengast, and Morgan S. Polikoff. "Social Studies Textbook Effects: Evidence From Texas." AERA Open 7 (January 2021): 233285842199234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332858421992345.

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Well-informed decisions on curricular materials can be an efficient way to boost student achievement. Prior studies have employed experimental and quasi-experimental designs to investigate the effects of textbooks on mathematics achievement. This is the first study to consider textbook effects in social studies education. Within the context of a textbook adoption cycle in Texas, we use a difference-in-differences approach with district-level administrative data and estimate the effects of adopting a state-approved textbook on social studies achievement. We find no evidence of a practically meaningful adoption effect. We conclude by highlighting the need for further high-quality research in this often-overlooked school subject area.
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Herman, Ellen. "The Difference Difference Makes: Justine Wise Polier and Religious Matching in Twentieth-Century Child Adoption." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 10, no. 1 (2000): 57–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2000.10.1.03a00030.

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During much of the twentieth Century, adoption has relied on the paradoxical theory that differences are managed best by denying their existence. According to the “matching” paradigm that has governed modern adoption, adults who acquire children born to others must look, feel, and behave as if they had given birth themselves. In spite of intensive efforts to erase distinction, distinction endures as an obvious characteristic of kinship outside of blood. The fact that adoption is a different way to make a family has profoundly shaped popular attitudes and professional policies. The fact that adoptive families are “made up” is surely one of the most interesting and important things about how such families come to be.
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Harper, Juliet. "An overview of developmental issues in counselling adoptive families." Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling 6, no. 1 (November 1996): 125–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1037291100001564.

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Adoption as a social phenomenon has always given rise to emotional controversy and the over-representation of adopted children at clinics and mental heath facilities has lead to studies which have focussed on the concept of psychological risk associated with adoption. Referral for assistance requires that counsellors and therapists appreciate the unique circumstances and vulnerabilities of adoptive families and are able to differentiate between normal transitional crises and adoption issues. To this end an overview of adoption concerns and, in particular, a developmental approach to adoption, is presented as a guide for those health professionals working with adoptive families.Adoption has provided a fertile area of investigation into family attachment and functioning, and in particular the relative impact of nurture versus nature in human growth and development, although the secrecy surrounding adoption and the sensitivity of the process has created methodological problems and made it difficult to conduct representative large-scale studies. A re-occurring question has been whether the process of adoption itself is a stressor which predisposes adoptive families to psychological distress and maladjustment, and if so how does this manifest itself?
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Koo, Youngeun. "The Question of Adoption: “Divided” Korea, “Neutral” Sweden, and Cold War Geopolitics, 1964–75." Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 3 (February 16, 2021): 563–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911820004581.

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This article examines the early development of South Korean intercountry adoption to Sweden. It focuses particularly on two disruptions in the movement of children between the two nations, drawing on archival sources in Sweden, South Korea, and Denmark. The article demonstrates that South Korean–Swedish adoption was deeply bound up in the shifting Cold War relations within and between the Korean peninsula and Scandinavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Further, state actions and strategies during this time reveal that both governments actively utilized their Cold War foreign policy and positionality to shape adoption to meet their respective national interests. This study extends US-centered adoption scholarship by revealing broader implications of Cold War geopolitics in cross-border adoptions to Scandinavia and, more importantly, significant ways in which intercountry adoption challenged, altered, and constituted the Cold War relations and nation-building projects of both sending and receiving states.
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O'Brien, Karen M., and Kathy P. Zamostny. "Understanding Adoptive Families." Counseling Psychologist 31, no. 6 (November 2003): 679–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000003258086.

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Contrary to societal stereotypes about adoption, this integrative review of published empirical research on adoptive families noted several positive and few negative out-comes with regard to satisfaction with the adoption, familial functioning, and parent-child communication. The critical analysis of 38 studies on adoptive families revealed a prevalence of descriptive passive research designs with concomitant concerns regarding sampling and generalizability. However, despite their limitations, the studies form the foundation for future research that, if replicated, provide support for viewing most adoptive families as resilient. To contribute to the empirical literature on adoption, counseling psychologists should base research in theory, study societal and cultural factors affecting adoptive families, improve methodology, and focus on resiliency and successful out-comes for adoptive families.
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García González, Macarena. "Enacting the family: The Performance of Kinship in Adoptive Parents' Weblogs." European Journal of Life Writing 2 (July 26, 2013): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.2.27.

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Abstract: Adoptive parents have turned to be passionate bloggers. Couples adopting internationally are using the internet intensely to share experiences and pieces of advice in the form of autobiographical accounts of their (troubled) adoption processes. These blogs not only connect a community facing multiple difficulties but, moreover, enact the family where the blood ties are missing. This study examines how the blogs of parents adopting girls in China perform parenthood by paralleling the adoption to the biological processes of pregnancy and giving birth. These blogs illuminate life writing's 'performativity' showing how they give the parents a sense of parenthood and offer the adoptees a sense of 'daughterness'. Moreover, they reveal how the performance of the adoptive family not only serves domestic purposes but also legitimates the practice of international adoption of children, which is regarded with suspicion by the international community. The outcome of this article shall not only contribute to the debate on how life writing impacts the writer's life and the society's approach towards the adoptees, but also to the broader field of studies on how cultural texts create social relations and assist processes of identity formation.
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Reiber, Christoph, Rainer Schultze-Kraft, Michael Peters, and Volker Hoffmann. "Lessons from silage adoption studies in Honduras." Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales 1, no. 2 (2013): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.17138/tgft(1)235-239.

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Askeland, Lori. "Adoption and Orphan Tropes in Literary Studies." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0004.

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Callahan, Cynthia, and Emily Hipchen. "Exploring Origins and Futures: Adoption Studies Research." Adoption & Culture 4, no. 1 (2014): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0020.

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Zhao, Xian, and Monica Biernat. "“I Have Two Names, Xian and Alex”: Psychological Correlates of Adopting Anglo Names." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 4 (March 26, 2018): 587–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022118763111.

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The practice of adopting Anglo names among ethnic minorities and foreign individuals may be intended to smooth interactions with majority group members, but it may also have negative implications for minorities themselves. Two studies investigated the associations among adoption of Anglo names, self-esteem, and other psychological outcomes. Chinese college students studying in the United States completed a battery of questions regarding adoption of Anglo names, self-esteem, mental and physical health, and well-being. In Study 1, path analyses indicated that adoption of Anglo names was negatively associated with self-esteem, and self-esteem mediated the relationships between adopting Anglo names and other psychological outcomes. In Study 2, path analyses replicated the results of Study 1. However, contrary to predictions, perceived discrimination did not predict adoption of Anglo names in the path model. These findings point to negative consequences associated with adopting Anglo names. These results contribute to the literature on the importance of names and shed light on interventions to improve intergroup relations and curriculum development in language teaching.
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Lipman, Ellen L., David R. Offord, Yvonne A. Racine, and Michael H. Boyle. "Psychiatric Disorders in Adopted Children: A Profile from the Ontario Child Health Study." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 37, no. 9 (November 1992): 627–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674379203700906.

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Studies of clinical populations suggest that adopted children are overrepresented among children using mental health facilities, whereas studies using non clinical populations of adopted children have reached mixed conclusions about whether or not there is an increased psychological risk associated with adoption. Data from the Ontario Child Health Study, a community survey of children aged four to 16 years, which included a subpopulation of adopted children, were used to: 1. profile the characteristics of adoptive families; 2. examine the strength of adoptive status as a marker for psychiatric and educational morbidity; and 3. determine the extent to which adoptive status has an independent relationship with psychiatric and educational morbidities. The findings were: 1. adoptive mothers were significantly older than non adoptive mothers, but otherwise adoptive families did not differ significantly from non adoptive families, 2. adoption in boys, but not in girls, was a significant marker for psychiatric disorder and poor school performance; adoption in adolescent girls was a significant marker for substance use; and 3. multivariate analyses demonstrated no independent effect of adoption on psychiatric disorder or poor school performance; for adolescents, adoptive status did have an independent relationship with substance use for girls. The implications of these findings will be discussed.
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Rushton, Alan, Barbara Maughan, Margaret Grant, and Rukmen Sehmi. "Infant domestic adoptions followed up to adulthood: considerations with reference to British birth cohort data." Adoption & Fostering 44, no. 4 (December 2020): 334–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308575920968237.

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Studies of adult outcomes of infant domestic adoptions are considered: the range of psychological and behavioural outcomes recorded, the current state of knowledge summarised and the importance of the chosen comparison groups discussed. The social context of infant adoptions is described. Findings from our follow-ups of British infant adoptions in the post-World War 11 period are then briefly reported and set alongside the previous studies. In these follow-ups, infant adopted children were tracked up to mid-life and compared with others born in similar circumstances and with those raised in two-parent families. We summarise findings on the long-term influence of factors in the prenatal period and in the adoptive home environment. We discuss how rearing in adoptive homes may provide protective effects in relation to internalising problems, but may not be as protective in relation to externalising outcomes. Implications for adoption policy and practice are drawn out.
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Clapton, Gary. "Close Relations? The Long-Term Outcomes of Adoption Reunions." Genealogy 2, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2040041.

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There has been a number of studies on the outcomes of adoption reunions, most of which have focussed on relatively ‘fresh’ reunions. Very few studies have looked at long-term outcomes. Fewer still have discussed reunions and kinship with controversy over firstly, the longevity of reunions, and secondly, what such reunions might engender regarding the relative kinship statuses of adoptive and birth families. This paper critically discusses the existing literature on reunions and kinship, and then reports on the long-term outcomes of 200 ‘matches’ on the Adoption Contact Register for Scotland between 1996–2006, presenting qualitative detail from the 75 respondents who completed questionnaires and sent in stories. The paper invites us to think about how adoption can form an adoptive family and deform a birth family, and how adoption reunions re-form both and everyone included. However, it will especially focus on what a coming together of two people separated by adoption means for the way that they frame their relationship with each other and those around them.
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Boyne, George A., Julian S. Gould-Williams, Jennifer Law, and Richard M. Walker. "Explaining the Adoption of Innovation: An Empirical Analysis of Public Management Reform." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23, no. 3 (June 2005): 419–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c40m.

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Innovation has become a cornerstone of many government programmes of public management reform. In this study we provide the first empirical analysis of innovation adoption in a programme of public management reform that involves an external authority decision. Studies of this nature have not formed a central element of innovation-adoption research, which typically focuses upon the voluntary adoption of innovations by public organisations. Over a two-year period seventy-nine services adopting a programme of innovative management in local government were studied. The empirical results indicate that innovation adoption in local authorities is likely to be achieved where there are dispersed populations, where adoption is concentrated upon a limited number of services, and where there is prior experience of facets of the programme of innovative management reform. Explanations of these results are identified and the implications of researching innovation in public organisations are considered.
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Pringle, Rosemary. "Adoption in Britain: reflexive modernity?" Australian Feminist Studies 19, no. 44 (July 2004): 225–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464042000226492.

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Cockin, Katharine. "Rethinking Transracial Adoption: Reading Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 18, no. 2 (January 2003): 276–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2003.10815308.

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Komdeur, Jan, Ellen Kalmbach, and Pascal van der Aa. "Adoption as a gosling strategy to obtain better parental care? Experimental evidence for gosling choice and age-dependency of adoption in greylag geese." Behaviour 142, no. 11-12 (2005): 1515–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853905774831909.

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AbstractAdoptions of unrelated young by successful breeders are a form of alloparental care which has been observed in many species of geese. Depending on costs and benefits to the parents, adoptions might represent an inter-generational conflict or a mutually beneficial strategy. Although most studies of wild populations suggest benefits of large brood sizes, incidental observations mostly report aggressive behaviour of parents towards lone goslings. No studies have investigated mechanisms and behaviour during adoptions in order to test whether adoptions are driven by parents or goslings. To test whether goslings might use adoption as a strategy to obtain better parental care, we carried out an experiment where lone greylag goose (Anser anser) goslings could choose between a dominant and a subordinate foster family. In a second experiment we also tested whether adoption was age-dependent. Except for one case, all lone goslings (N = 16) chose the dominant family. Parents showed very little aggression towards lone goslings at three days after hatch, but aggression increased until 9 days and remained high thereafter. At the same time as aggression increased, the chance of successful adoption decreased. In the first five weeks of life, goslings which had been adopted were no further away from parents than original goslings during grazing. These results show that goslings might choose foster families according to dominance. The fact that with increasing gosling age parents are less willing to adopt could be due to improved individual recognition and reflect decreasing benefits of gaining an additional family member. More detailed studies on state-dependent costs and benefits of adoptions are required to determine whether adoptions in geese represent conflict or mutualism, and why this changes with gosling age.
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Homans, Margaret. "Adoption and Essentialism." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 21, no. 2 (2002): 257. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4149233.

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Chung, Soojin. "Mother of Transracial Adoption: Pearl Buck's Special Needs Adoption and American Self-criticism." Studies in World Christianity 25, no. 3 (December 2019): 345–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2019.0271.

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In 1949, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck founded Welcome House, the first transracial and transnational adoption agency in the country, marking the beginning of the transnational adoption of mixed-race ‘Amerasian’ children. Contrary to the prevailing understanding that her humanitarian advocacy was a political act that promoted American global hegemony during the Cold War period, this article argues that her humanitarian work was motivated primarily by three forces: (1) her sense of American political and moral responsibility, (2) her desire for personal connection and motherhood, and (3) her mission of global friendship and unity. Buck actively fought racism in America, advocating the adoption of mixed-race Asian children and children with disabilities. Unlike evangelical agencies that catered to a conservative Christian audience, Pearl Buck normalised the notion of transracial adoption across America through her potent prose. This study examines her work in the context of the rise of Protestant liberalism, accentuating her role as the pioneer of the transracial and transnational adoption of Amerasian children and demonstrating that her ideology was congruent with her lifetime motto of human solidarity and anti-racism.
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Buyurgan, Nebil, Ronald L. Rardin, Raja Jayaraman, Vijith M. Varghese, and Angelica Burbano. "A Novel GS1 Data Standard Adoption Roadmap for Healthcare Providers." International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics 6, no. 4 (October 2011): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jhisi.2011100103.

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The use of GS1 Data Standards is envisioned to improve the efficiency of the healthcare supply chain as it did for the retail supply chain. The healthcare industry, especially providers, acknowledges their potentials; however, there are misconceptions and lack of understanding the associated costs and expected benefits. This study presents an adoption roadmap for GS1 Data Standards at the provider level in healthcare industry. The developed roadmap is a result of systematic efforts at conducting extensive studies, examining the best practices, and interacting with industry leaders. The adoption roadmap includes different levels and sublevels to provide a flexible foundation for healthcare providers where alternative adoption paths will be available for their immediate needs and requirements. Sublevels have a recommended precedence structure to realize maximum gains from the adoptions. The feasibility and practicality of the developed roadmap has been validated by two pilot studies, which were conducted in collaboration with two hospital provider partners. The pilot studies helped identify potential benefits as well as roadblocks and barriers for different levels of GS1 Data Standards adoption. The results indicate that the adoption is not an easy process and may require many workarounds; however, the potential gains are significant.
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Maithel, R. "Some Findings from Studies in Technology Adoption 1." IFAC Proceedings Volumes 25, no. 7 (May 1992): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1474-6670(17)52333-2.

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Smoller, Jordan W., and Christine T. Finn. "Family, twin, and adoption studies of bipolar disorder." American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics 123C, no. 1 (August 8, 2003): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.c.20013.

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Taylor, Levi, Stephen V. Faraone, and Ming T. Tsuang. "Family, twin, and adoption studies of bipolar disease." Current Psychiatry Reports 4, no. 2 (April 2002): 130–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11920-002-0046-1.

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