enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Open adoption - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_adoption

   Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's personal information and have an option of contact. While open adoption is a relatively new phenomenon in the west, it has been a traditional practice in many Asian societies, especially in South Asia, for many centuries.

3. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_the_United_States

   Adoption Reform encompasses family preservation, adoptees' access to original birth certificates, birth and adoptive families having direct access to each other (open adoption) and all related records (open records). The Adoption Triangle by Annette Baran, Reuben Pannor and Arthur Sorosky; Twice Born and Lost and Found by Betty Jean Lifton; I ...

4. Adoption - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption

   Contemporary adoption practices can be open or closed. Open adoption allows identifying information to be communicated between adoptive and biological parents and, perhaps, interaction between kin and the adopted person. [68] Open adoption can be an informal arrangement subject to termination by adoptive parents who have sole custody over the ...

5. Adoptee rights - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptee_rights

   Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.

6. Outline of adoption - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_adoption

   LGBT adoption – LGBT adoption is the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. Same-sex adoption in the United Kingdom; Open adoption – Open adoption is an adoption in which the biological mother or parents and adoptive family know the identity of each other.

7. Effects of adoption on the birth mother - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_adoption_on_the...

   Birthmother Syndrome is a term that came about after a survey including 70 women who placed their children in adoption all were experiencing the same eight symptoms; signs of unresolved grief, symptoms of PTSD, diminished self-esteem, outward professions of perfection masking inner feelings of shame, arrested emotional development, self ...