Word: adoptionism
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Proponents of gay marriage will be most effective when they stop alienating social conservatives and opt to highlight the ways in which their own aims are consistent with the latter’s values. It is not an adaptation of aims that is necessary, but rather an adoption of a...
"What those laws should do is ban Céline Dion from singing, and award the the Legion of Honor to people who listened to her and survived," suggests Porte - who was hardly alone in decrying Dion's selection as the most egregious example to date of the institution confusing...
That's in line with what previous adoption research has said for many years. What this new study challenges are the reasons behind this phenomenon. In the past, most researchers have dismissed the adoptees' disproportionate number of behavioral or mental health problems as a result of adoptive parents' demographic trends...
Keyes's team was able to make this distinction largely due to its methodology. Whereas most adoption research relies on questionnaires filled in by parents, this study spoke directly to the adoptees themselves. Working with three large adoption agencies in Minnesota, researchers interviewed nearly 700 adopted children and 540 non...
Another surprising conclusion that the Minnesota study produced was the fact that children adopted from within the U.S. are more prone to behavioral disorders than those adopted from overseas. Some 40,000 children worldwide annually emigrate from more than 100 countries through adoption, a trend increasing rapidly in the U.S...