Sentences with phrase «of adoptees»

83 African - American families who adopted children from two private agencies in California between 1990 and 1995 (the majority of adoptees had been in the public child welfare system)

Parental education had minor effects on the test performance of the adoptees — statistically significant only for non-Korean adoptees» verbal test scores — but was prominently influential for non-adoptees.

Cognitive ability is one important indicator of adoptees» development, both as an outcome measure itself and as a potential mediator between early adversities and ill - health.

The present study used parent - reported data on internalizing and externalizing problem behavior of adoptees at mean ages 12.4, 15.5 and 26.3.

Psychological adjustment of adoptees in adulthood: family environment and adoption - related correlates.

A vast majority of the adoptees I know love their parents tremendously and deeply, but that has really nothing to do with also wanting their own truth.

Voices of Adoptees Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York Provides a collection of articles by adopted people raised in transracial or transcultural families.

This Is Us will feature a panel of adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, caseworkers and others, talking honestly about adoption.

It began with de-linking the income test for teens (a low percentage of the youth adopted from care) and worked backward to newborns and babies (the biggest portion of adoptees).

All of our adoptees are vet - checked, desexed, immunised and microchipped.

Second, in response to large numbers of adoptees returning to adoption agencies seeking information, states have changed adoption laws.

She spoke of adoptees» struggle with their «identity, uncertainty and loss» and feelings of a «persistent tension between loyalty to one family and yearning for another».

Common health - related concerns of adoptees.

Using their combined total of 55 years experience in clinical and research work with adoptees and their families, the authors use the voices of adoptees themselves to trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime.

The judges conjectured and speculated blackmail, a slur against the motives of adoptees and Linda F.M. was denied on February 24, 1981.

It can provide validation for the experiences and feelings of adoptees, who have often felt misunderstood; it can bring solace to birth mothers, who have long been denied the truth of their loss; and it can be a source of information for adoptive parents, so that they can better understand and respond to their children.

The insight which is brought to the experiences of abandonment and loss will contribute not only to the healing of adoptees, adoptive families, and birth parents, but will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned.

I yearned to make things better for my own kids and future generations of adoptees and adoptive families.

In addition to this focus, they are also passionate about building bridges between families and parents of adoptees, the Korean American community in Chicago, and the international Korean adoptee community. www.katchicago.com.

This section is designed to address the concerns of both adoptees who are searching for birth parents or other birth relatives, as well as birth parents (both mothers and fathers) who want to locate a child who was adopted.

Some adoptees are close to their adoptive parents and not interested in reunion with their birth family or having an ongoing relationship, some are like Sandy and I who wanted to have a relationship with both of their families, and I have also encountered a couple of adoptees who met their birth family and then left their adoptive families (one of them was a guy who had a adoptive father who didn't treat him very well).

We also have a very active online community that provides education and support for adoptive and hopeful adoptive parents, with a lot of voices of adoptees and birthparents who share their stories.

On June 6, 2014 Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law Public Act 14 - 133 (House Bill 5144), which restores the right of adoptees adopted after October 1, 1983 to access their original birth certificates upon reaching the age of 18.

ALMA (Adoptees Liberation Movement Association) Computerized matching service of adoptees with birth parents who are registered.

International Soundex Reunion Registry Computerized matching service of adoptees with birth parents or siblings who are registered.

I can remember a discussion on BBC News suggesting that 60 % of adoptees have AD and that a certain percentage have severe AD.

All of our adoptees are vet - checked, desexed, immunised and microchipped.

All of our adoptees are vet - checked, desexed, immunised and microchipped.

It was created to provide these dogs with the same type of care one of our adoptees, Yeager, was able to receive in the last of his sixteen years, as you can see in this video tribute.

Some dogs seem destined to travel the world and one of our adoptees, Freedom, is definitely one of those dogs.

To adopt one of the pets from our adoption centre, please contact WLPA on 02 9817 4892 and check out Adopt a Pet Page for further details on what is required of adoptees.

The average shelter gets about 10 percent of its adoptees back, according to the SPCA.

All of our adoptees are vet - checked, desexed, immunised and microchipped.

Approximately 12 years later the adoptees were re-evaluated by new psychiatrists that were blind to all prior mental health assessments of the adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents.

A Finnish national sample of adoptees whose biological mothers were diagnosed with schizophrenia - spectrum disorders was blindly compared to a demographically (age, sex, location, ect) matched sample of adoptees whose biological mothers did not have a schizophrenia - spectrum psychiatric diagnosis.

Conversely, the mental health status of the adoptees was unknown to the diagnosticians who rated the biological mothers.

In some states, (North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia) the city and county of the adoptees birth is changed on the amended birth certificate, to where the adoptive parents were living at the time the adoption was finalized.

In states which practice or have practiced confidential adoption, this has led to the creation of adoption reunion registries, and efforts to establish the right of adoptees to access their sealed records (for example, the American Adoption Congress, Concerned United Birthparents, and Bastard Nation).

We help adoptive families with educational resources, provide a community of adoptees for our children and young adults; an online and offline adoptive family support structure stretching across the United States and around the world, in regional chapters, on down to local Parent Organized Districts and one - on - one family support.

Musings: Mamahood & More The wife and mother of adoptees talks about their journey through open and closed adoption.

The emotional pain of adoptees is well documented.

Those on the other side of the debate continue to express relief at the inclusion of a non-disclosure veto in the proposed new law, saying it would strike a reasonable balance between the right of adoptees to know their parentage, the desire of «birth parents» to learn the fate of their progeny and the right of adult adoptees and others to control the uses of private information held in government records.

A group of adoptees and «birth parents», opposed to the new law, promised upon the bill's passage to mount a constitutional challenge to it, and retained noted Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby for this purpose.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of adoptees traveling with other adoptees, or families traveling with other families.

This documentary bridges the gap between birth and adoptive families through diverse personal stories of adoptees, birthparents, and adoptive parent

Educate, educate, educate yourself on adoption, read the experiences of adoptees and birth parents, and take yourself out of the equation.

Coleman Moms and Babes The official blog of adoptees of the Suemman Coleman home for unwed mothers.

I eventually became a mentor for some of her families in crises and gained a broader understanding of the needs of both adoptees and their parents.

This is a question better asked of adoptees, for any answer I give is pure conjecture.

The article's subheading «Finding Our Birth Mom» violates two oft - invoked rules in cross-triad groups, groups that seek to understand the perspectives of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents.