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Child and Family Services Act
The purpose of this Act is to promote the best interests, protection and well being of children in Canada.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Government of Ontario
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1990
The Adoption Tax Credit: Is it an Effective Approach to Promote Foster Care Adoption?
This brief argues that the United States Adoption Tax Credit established to encourage foster care adoption does little to promote this cause while benefiting foreign and private adoptions, particularly among higher income families.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Child Trends
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2007
Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child
This study argues that children waiting for adoption should be placed with married parents whenever possible.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg Virginia
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February 2006
The European Study of Assisted Reproduction Families: The Transition to Adolescence
This paper compares how children from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) families, donor insemination (DI) families, adoptive families and natural families fare in their transition to adolescence.
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Children > Adopted Children
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European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
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March 2002
When Children Cannot Return Home: Adoption and Guardianship
This article discusses efforts on the part of governments and welfare agencies to find permanent, stable homes for foster children through adoption and guardianship.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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2004
Drug-Exposed Kids Thrive in Adoptive Homes
This paper explores the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and looks at how these children fare in adoptive families.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia
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1999
Are Associations Between Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment Genetically Mediated? An Adoption Study
This study explores the possibility of a genetic contribution to children's divorce adjustment by investigating the outcomes of biological and adopted children who experienced their parents' divorce.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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American Psychological Association
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2000
Adoptions Australia 1998-99
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 1998 to 1999, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2000
Adoptions Australia 2000-01
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2000 to 2001, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2002
Adoptions Australia 2001-02
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2001 to 2002, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2002
Adoptions Australia 1999-00
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 1999 to 2000, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2001
Adoptions Australia 2003-04
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2003 to 2004, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2004
Analysis of Secondary Data Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models, and Evaluation Issues
This report analyses secondary adoption data to examine the rapidly expanding field of post-adoption services in North Carolina and California.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the Administration for Children and Families
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December 01, 2002
Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations
This paper discusses the increasing rate of adoption from foster care in the United States in the 1990s and seeks to determine if any particular population subgroups benefited to a greater or lesser extent from these changes.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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November 2002
Growth in the Adoption Population
This report examines the possible effects of changes to federal policies on the relative number of children adopted from foster care and remaining in foster care in the United States from 2000 to 2020.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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March 2002
Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act
This paper examines the effects of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on the proportion of children adopted from foster care and the length of time needed for the adoption process to be completed.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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August 2002
Understanding Adoption Subsidies: An Analysis of AFCARS Data
This report uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) to examine the extent to which subsidies provided to adoptive families aid in the attainment of permanency and child well-being goals.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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January 2005
Promoting Adoption Reform: Congress Can Give Children Another Chance
This paper looks at current adoption legislation, and what Congress can do to improve the laws and policies by removing some of the uneccessary barriers involved in this procedure.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Heritage Foundation
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July 27, 1995
The Adoption of Looked After Children: A Scoping Review of Research
This paper examines literature pertaining to the adoption of children from public care.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Social Care Institute for Excellence
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November 2003
Once We Knew How to Rescue Poor Kids
This paper focuses on the efforts of US Catholic charities in changing the culture of poor children.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Manhattan Institute
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Autumn 1998
Children of Colour in the Child Welfare System
This paper discusses the issues and experiences faced by children of colour in the child welfare system, and looks specifically at rates of child abuse, foster home placements, and adoption of these children.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Child Welfare League of America
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January 2004
Placement Stability Measure and Diverse Out-of-Home Care Populations
This report discusses a child's placement stability as a way of assessing the child's well-being in the out-of-home care.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Child Welfare League of America
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April 2002
Adopted Children and Stepchildren: 2000
This paper looks at the number of adopted children and stepchildren in the US, and examines characteristics such as race, age, gender, disabilities, poverty status, and living arrangements.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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US Census Bureau
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October 2003
Statistics on Adoption in the United States
This article reviews existing data relating to the characteristics of parents who adopt or give their children up for adoption, the nature of the children who are adopted, and adoption arrangements.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Agency Versus Independent Adoption: The Case for Agency Adoption
This article argues that there should be a single, uniform process of adoption in order to ensure that certain standards are maintained and that children, adoptive parents, and birth parents are protected.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Agency Versus Indepedent Adoption: The Case for Independent Adoption
This article discusses the role that independent (non-agency) adoption plays in the United States, the processes involved in independent adoption, and the risks and benefits associated with it.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
This article examines the pyschological risks faced by adopted children as compared to non-adopted children.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Risks and Benefits of Open Adoption
This article reviews the main arguments relating to the advantages and disadvantages of an adoption process in which the birth and adoptive parents are in contact with each other.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Outcomes of Adoption of Children With Special Needs
This article investigates the well-being of adopted children who have special needs (for example, behavioural, physical, or emotional problems), and finds that most do well in adoptive homes.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Adoption of Children with Special Needs
This paper discusses the history and current status of adoption services for special needs children and suggests ways in which to provide better services for these children and their adoptive parents.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Future of Children
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Spring 1993
Caregiving Environments of Kinship Care Literature Review
This paper reviews the available literature about kinship care.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Children and Family Research Center
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July 2003
Post-Permanency Services
This paper presents the need for further services to families facing the permanency of a previously fostered child, whether following reunification with biological parents, permanent kinship care, or adoption.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Casey Family Programs
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2003
The State of the Children: An Examination of Government-Run Foster Care
This report presents findings on the number of children in foster care, the number of those that are legally adoptable, and gauges the success of finding adoptive homes for foster children.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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National Center for Policy Alternatives
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August 01, 1997
Children of Color in Foster Care and the Multiethnic Placement Act: The Experiences of Families Involved in Transracial and Same Race Adoptions in an Illinois Sample (Final Report)
This study looks at the expereinces of transracial adoptive families.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Children and Family Research Center
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May 10, 2000
Adoptions Australia 2002-03
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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2003
Child Maltreatment in Out of Home Care: What Do We Know Now?
This paper examines the incidence of abuse and neglect of children in the foster care system, and seeks to identify retrospective allegations of foster care abuse that may have actually occurred before placement.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Children and Family Research Center
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2001
Australian Social Trends 1998: Family - Family Formation: Adoptions
This article examines trends in Australian adoptions and changes to adoption legislation.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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January 26, 2000
Children Adopted from Care in England: 2002-2003
This paper presents statistical information pertaining to adoption rates, the adoption process, and characteristics of adopted children in England.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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Office for National Statistics Department for Education and Skills
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November 01, 2003
Did Abortion Legalization Reduce the Number Of Unwanted Children? Evidence from Adoptions
This study found that the legalization of abortion in the United States led to a substantial decline in the number of adoptions of children who had been born to white mothers.
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Category:
Children > Adopted Children
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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February 01, 2002
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