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General, Compilations, and Statistical Data


Adoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?

Howe, Ruth-Arlene W., Boston College Law School Research Paper No. 2000-06 2002 SSRN ( join free, get email of download)

Iving G. Leon, Child Development 2002 abstract/


Adoption Research: An Assessment of Empirical Contributions to the Advancement of Adoption Practice

Madelyn Freundlich, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 2002


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

Jeanne Howard, Susan Smith, Diane Zosky, and Kim Woodman, Journal of Social Service Research (Volume 32, Issue 3) 11/2006


The Future of Children: Adoption 1993

entire journal in full..many many articles Brodzinsky, Baran, Pannor..many more..HUGE!!


Mary Wilson; Nuala Lordan; Audrey Mullender
British Journal of Social Work; Jul 2004;


LEGAL STATUS AND EFFECTS ON CHILDREN

Margaret F. Brinig; Notre Dame Law School
Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-213 2007

available free on SSRN here



SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHTS AND WELL-BEING OF BIRTHPARENTS
IN THE ADOPTION PROCESS

Susan Smith, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute 2006



Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?

Plug, Erik and Vijverberg, Wim P.M.,IZA Discussion Paper No. 247.January 2001 SSRN ( join free, get email of download)


Statistics on Adoption in the United States
Kathy S. Stolley, The Future of Children, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1993.

Still "Not Quite as Good as Having Your Own"? Toward a Sociology of Adoption

Allen P. Fisher ­Annual Review of Sociology 2003


Voluntary Relinquishment for Adoption: Numbers and Trends
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, March 2005.


 

 

 

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