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Addressing Psycho-Social Implications in Social Policy: The Case of Adoption and Early Intervention Strategies.

A Research Paper submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington by Ann Weaver, Victoria University 1999

( this paper is now available if you Google the name and then downlaod the document)


Adoption as an Option forUnmarried Pregnant Teens

Marcia Custer, Adolescence, Winter 1993


Adoption in Clinical Psychology: A Review of the Absence, Ramifications, and Recommendations for Change

Diana E. Post, Behavioral Science, 2004


Birth Parents in Adoption: Research, Practice, and Counseling Psychology

Mary O’Leary Wiley / Independent Practice & Amanda L. Baden / Montclair State UniversityThe Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 33, No. 1, 13-50 (2005)


Challenging the Silence of the Mental Health Community on Adoption Issues

Henderson D.B, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, Volume 11, Number 2, April 2002


‘Choose Life” License Plates
Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, August 1, 2006.


Crisis Pregnancy Centers Seek to Increase Political Clout, Secure Government Subsidy
Vitoria Lin and Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, Number 2, 2002.


Congressional Research Service; Teen Pregnancy Prevention

by Carmen Solomon-Fears

"President Bush's FY2004 budget included $10 million for maternity group
homes. Also, in the 108th Congress, S. 476 (the CARE Act of 2003), as
amended and passed by the Senate on April 9, 2003, includes $33 million
for maternity group homes for FY2003 and such sums as may be necessary
for FY2004 . President Bush's FY2005 budget again includes $10 million for
maternity group homes ."2005


Family Planning and Adoption Promotion: New Proposals, Long-Standing Issues
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, October 1999.


A Comparison of Subsidized Guardianship and Child Welfare Adoptive Families Served by the Illinois Adoption and Guardianship Preservation Program

findings overall suggest subsidized guardianship is a viable permanency arrangement

Jeanne A. Howard PhD, Susan Livingston Smith MSW, Diane L. Zosky, Kim Woodman, Journal of Social Service Research


Infant Abandonment
Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, August 1, 2006


The Inadequacies in U.S. and Dutch Adoption Law to Establish Same-Sex Couples
As Legal Parents: A Call for Recognizing Intentional Parenthood

Nancy G. Maxwell , Caroline J. Forder
Family Law Quarterly , Volume 38, p. 623-662 Fall 2004
[Symposium on International Law]

SSRN



Legislating Against Arousal: The Growing Divide Between Federal Policy and Teenage Sexual Behavior
By Cynthia Dailard, Guttmacher Policy Review
Summer 2006, Volume 9, Number 3

Of Apples and Trees: Adoption and Informed Consent
Ellen Wertheimer, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2006-25
Quinnipiac Law Review, Vol. 25, 2007


Orientations of Pregnancy Counselors Toward Adoption: Summary Narrative

By Edmund V. Mech, Ph.D. & Elizabeth L. Leonard, M.S.W.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(and then an intertesting discussion here)


Out of Compliance? Implementing the Infant Adoption Awareness Act
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, August 2004.


Parens Patriarchy: Adoption, Eugenics, and Same-Sex Couples

Kari Hong, California Western Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2003


Survey 1000
Trackers International, 2002.

The Drive to Enact ‘Infant Abandonment’ Laws--A Rush to Judgment?
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, August 2000.


The Idea of Adoption: An Inquiry into the History of Adult Adoptee Access to Birth Records
Elizabeth J. Samuels 2001 by Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey;
53 Rutgers L. Rev. 367

(please note: there are five parts to this, links continue on the bottom)


The Life Cycle of Birthparents: Future Directions for Counseling Psychologists.

Wiley, Mary O'Leary; Baden, Amanda L.


The Judges Page:

a publication of National CASA in partnership with The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.2005


Time and Temporalization in Pregnancy Test Counselling

Anthony T. Carter, University of Rochester, NY


Time to Decide? The Laws Governing Mothers' Consents to the Adoption of Their Newborn Infants

Samuels, Elizabeth J.,Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 509, 2005


Understanding Adoptive Families
An Integrative Review of Empirical Research and Future Directions for Counseling Psychology

Karen M. O'Brien ,Kathy P. Zamostny, The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 31, No. 6, 679-710 (2003)


Unintended Consequences: ‘Safe Haven’ Laws are Causing Problems, Not Solving Them
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, March 10, 2003.


U.S./EUROPEAN SUMMIT ON MISSING &EXPLOITED CHILDREN

The Past, the Present, and the Future

Mohamed Y. Mattar, S.J.D.,Buonas, Switzerland 2005

 

 

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