Adoption
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of hepatitis A vaccine in close contacts of newly arriving international adoptees.

16 Sep 2009 On February 25, 2009, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine hepatitis A vaccination for household members and other close personal contacts (e.g., regular babysitters) of adopted children newly arriving from ... Read more...

The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies.

16 Aug 2009 Israel is the only country in the world that provides nearly unlimited, universal state funding for fertility treatments. This exceptional policy has been widely understood as symbolising the state's pronatalism. In this paper I probe the policy and ... Read more...

High activity of monoamine oxidase A is associated with externalizing behaviour in maltreated and nonmaltreated adoptees.

30 Jul 2009 Individual differences in a functional polymorphism of the promoter of the Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) gene might partly explain the increased vulnerability of maltreated children for externalizing behaviour. A sample of 239 internationally adopted ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adoption'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Cross-breeding and diversity, an opportunity] 29 Sep 2009
• Updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of hepatitis A vaccine in close contacts of newly arriving international adoptees. 16 Sep 2009
• The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies. 16 Aug 2009
• High activity of monoamine oxidase A is associated with externalizing behaviour in maltreated and nonmaltreated adoptees. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding and promoting attachment. 30 Jul 2009
• Renal and miliary tuberculosis in an internationally adopted infant. 30 Jul 2009
• Are there shared environmental influences on adolescent behavior? Evidence from a study of adoptive siblings. 19 Jul 2009
• Facilitating attachment after international adoption. 29 Jun 2009
• The Down syndrome advantage: fact or fiction? 29 Jun 2009
• Rethinking environmental contributions to child and adolescent psychopathology: a meta-analysis of shared environmental influences. 29 Jun 2009
• Complex trauma, impact on development and possible solutions on an adolescent intensive care unit. 29 Jun 2009
• Contact and truth: the unfolding predicament in adoption and fostering. 29 Jun 2009
• Postadoption depression: what nurses should know. Adoptive parents need support, too. 29 Jun 2009
• The sins of the fathers. 20 Jun 2009
• Alcohol outcome expectancies as socially shared and socialized beliefs. 30 May 2009
• Psychiatric status among stepchildren and domestic and international adoptees in Denmark. A comparative nationwide register-based study. 16 May 2009
• Embryo donation in New Zealand: a pilot study. 7 May 2009
• Predictive value of immunization records and risk factors for immunization failure in internationally adopted children. 29 Apr 2009
• Is blood thicker than water?: ethics of hematopoietic stem cell donation by biological siblings of adopted children. 29 Apr 2009
• Shared-environmental contributions to high cognitive ability. 16 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Adoption'

Definition: Voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be as one's own child, usually with legal confirmation.

Descriptor UI: D000300

Alternative terms: Adoption; Adoptions;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology;

Tree Number: I01.880.225.140;