Adoption: Overview
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Adoption of children from foster care and international adoptions have accelerated since 1987. Federal policy changes have markedly increased the termination of parental rights and adoption of children in foster care. Adoption by relatives and single parents has also grown markedly. Open adoption is increasingly normative. Adoption outcomes are generally positive although there is substantial call for post-adoption support for children adopted from foster care. These services are emerging but their efficacy is still untested. More work is needed on post-adoption services because there are now more former foster children in post-adoption status than there are children in foster care.
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1994 ◽
Vol 3
(4)
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pp. 877-893
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2012 ◽
Vol 27
(1-2)
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pp. 129-147
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2005 ◽
Vol 42
(2)
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pp. 241-256
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