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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"International adoption"”.
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Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption
… ‘racial/ethnic’ identity development for international transracial adoptees. A systematic search for studies was conducted across five databases resulting in the inclusion of 12 studies in the meta-synthesis, which was informed by meta-ethnography methodology. The study proposes a …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
… children have been sent to Western nations for adoption, with the vast majority, roughly two-thirds, being placed in the United States. From the beginning, these children were largely assumed to be the progeny of Korean prostitutes and American servicemen, who were subjected to intense …
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"Ceausescu's Orphans": Narrating the Crisis of Romanian International Child Adoption
… methods to study the politics of Romanian International Adoption policy. The study focuses on the crisis period of 2001-2004 which ended with a ban on Romanian International Adoption. Policy discourse is examined in the sending country (Romania)and the major receiving country (the U.S.), …
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Exploring the Family Context Among Children Adopted From China: Perceptions of Pre-Adoption Factors, Post-Adoption Experiences, and the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
Within the context of international adoption, previous research has focused on parentchild attachment relationships and various aspects of the adoption process. However, less is known about other aspects of parent-child relationships (e.g., cohesion, conflict) within internationally adoptive …
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The Immortal Jellyfish and Other Things That Don't Know About Love
… trauma, but it also covers topics including international adoption, self-injury, and oceanic life. Jellyfish are a recurring image and theme, both the physical jellyfish itself and the mythological connection to Medusa. Jellyfish do not have brains, but they have developed complex stinging …
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The impending revolution : the prospect for openness in Korean-American adoptions
… thesis explores the potential for openness in international adoptions and, more specifically, in Korean-American adoptions. Open adoptions are becoming more common in the United States. More adoptees are also searching for their birthfamilies. These changes resulted from social evolutions that …
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The Red Thread Web: a case study of the uses and gratifications parents adopting a child from China discovered in the Rumor Queen blog
… Chinese child must work with the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), which writes and enforces the regulations for domestic and international adoptions. In December 2006 the CCAA suddenly announced it would soon implement dramatic new restrictions on parents seeking to adopt a child from …
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THE ECONOMICS OF CHILD ADOPTION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
… empirically investigates the phenomenon of child adoption. Chapter 1 models the supply side of international adoption as a situation where families in a low-income country assume the role as suppliers of adoptable children. Under certain condition, the supply function can be downward-sloping. When …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Korean Adoptees’ Multiple Minority Identities
… Korean War, Korean children have been placed for international adoption due to their marginalized status in South Korea. In the United States, Korean children have predominantly been adopted to White families through transracial adoption (Bergquist, 2003; Lee, 2003). Transracial adoption describes …
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Parental Perceptions of Childhood Vaccines: A Qualitative Study
… a local Jewish temple in southern California, an international adoption agency based in Colorado serving families living across the United States, and a local mom’s group. A combination of snowball sampling and purposive sampling was used to recruit participants and to ensure diverse …
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Att plantera ett barn : internationella adoptioner och assisterad befruktning i svensk reproduktionspolitik
… appear in Official Government Reports (SOU) on international adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART) between 1953 and 2007. I argue that the committees’ reports can be viewed as normative statements constituting a hegemonic state discourse. The methodological approach is based on the …
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Digital technologies and environmental change : examining the influence of social practices and public policies
… on the use of hazardous materials, and the international adoption of rules and regulations about electronics waste (e-waste). Despite these responses, the global environmental footprint of digital technologies and services has continued to rise due to their growing ubiquity, dwindling …
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The Lived Experience of Parenting a Child Adopted from an Institution in Eastern Europe
… to assessment and care of the family with internationally adopted children, effects of institutionalization, alcohol-related neuro-developmental disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Given the complex picture of the internationally adopted child and family, an inter-professional …
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Family Experiences Concerning Adopting a Previously Institutionalized Child from Russia or Romania
The number of families choosing to adopt a child internationally in the United States has increased exponentially on an annual basis (Johnson, 1997; Miller, 2000). The purpose of this study was to understand the adoption process experiences of families who have adopted a child between the ages of …
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Clinical and biological validation of hyperpolarised MRI of prostate cancer
… clinically significant disease. The recent international adoption of pre-biopsy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the first-line investigation in patients with suspected PCa has created a paradigm shift in PCa diagnostic pathway. With its negative predictive value above 90%, pre-biopsy MRI …
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Adoption reunions: an exploratory study of the ‘lived experience’ of Irish adult intercountry adoptees who have reunions with their birth families in the digital age
… of reunion for young adults who are adopted internationally to Ireland. It examines how intercountry adoptees have reunions with their birth families online and in-person, and how experiences of contact and reunion with their birth family contribute to their identity construction. The …
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A Phenomenological Study of Racialized Experiences of Asian Adopt Adoptees
… adult Asian adoptees who were transracially and internationally adopted. Particular focus of the study examined the racialization experiences and the relationships between racial and ethnic identity and socialization, and identified key influences on self-perception. The intent of this study was …
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Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema
The family has always been a central narrative theme in cinema. Korean cinema has been no exception, where the family has proved to be a popular subject since its earliest days. Yet Western scholarship on Korean cinema has given little attention to this dominant theme, preferring to concentrate on …