Exploring the complex dynamics between adoption, child abuse, and family violence, and the implications for adoptive families and social services

Foster care abuse statistics shine a light on the importance of proper foster parent training to provide a brighter future for every child.

Objectif: Comment prodiguer de bons soins aux enfants qui sont placés à l’extérieur de leur foyer est un sujet de grande discussion au Royaume-Uni. Le…

Objectives. To estimate the cumulative prevalence of confirmed child maltreatment and foster care placement for US children and changes in prevalence between 2011 and 2016. Methods. We used synthetic cohort life tables and data from the Adoption and ...

Five years after having an abortion, over 95 percent of the women in a landmark UCSF study said it was the right decision for them.

Adoption is viewed by most Americans as good, yet it is rarely chosen. Why?

There is unanimous agreement in the scientific literature that the vast majority of all adoptions are successful. Despite these encouraging statistics, it remains important for adoption social workers to be prepared to help support families who may struggle after adoptive placement. This article provides an overview of the existing empirical evidence pertaining to adoption disruption or dissolution and associated variables, highlighting factors related to the child, the adoptive parent(s), and the professional adoption services.

Explore adoption assistance for foster care adoption with Families Rising. Learn about eligibility, benefits, and supports to navigate the adoption journey.

Contents Background Research Topics Methodology Findings Characteristics of Adopted Children and Adoptive Families Findings Regarding Subsidy Receipt and Amounts Background Adoption subsidies are perhaps the single most powerful tool by which the child welfare system can encourage a

A new study suggests more women are being shamed for the decision to place their child for adoption, making a mother’s impossible decision even harder

An overview of adoption trends in the United States PDF version 18% Decrease in adoptions from foster care from FY19 – FY 21 19,130 Number who aged out of foster care without a permanent family at the end of FY21 113,589 Children and youth waiting to be adopted at the end of FY21 24% Decrease…

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Prior research has shown that adoptees have a higher rate of substance use disorders (SUDs) than nonadoptees. But these findings have not been verified with a population-based sample of adult adoptees in the United States. Also, no previous adoption study ...

Explore data about state approaches, children in care, and how money is invested in foster care vs. preventive and permanency services.

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310 adoptions were finalised in Australia in 2018@19, of which 82% were of Australian children and 18% were intercountry. The majority of adoptions finalised were known child adoptions (211, or 68%...

Did you know that about two percent of children in the United States are adopted? And that although inter-country adoption may be the most visible category, the majority of American adoptions actually involve children adopted out of foster care?

The racial and ethnic composition of the adopted child population in the U.S. has changed dramatically in less than a generation. This IFS research brief compares adopted children in two large national studies of kindergarten students conducted a decade apart by the federal Department of Education1. The proportion of adopted kindergartners being raised by a mother of a different race or ethnic group rose by 50% between 1999 and 2011. The proportion of adoptees with Asian backgrounds nearly tripled over the same time period. Paradoxically, the fraction of adopted students who are African-American seems to have fallen. What has not changed is that a large majority of adoptive parents are white, older, well-educated, and relatively affluent.

Their parents are generally well-educated and affluent. They receive more time and educational resources from those parents than the average child gets from theirs. Yet they get into more conflicts with their classmates at school, display relative little interest and enthusiasm about learning tasks, and register only middling academic performance. About whom are we talking? Adopted children. This is the paradox of adoption in America.

A recent Institute for Family Studies research brief called “The Paradox of Adoption” reported that adopted children had relatively high rates of behavior and learning problems in kindergarten and first grade, despite having home environments that were well above average in terms of family income and parent education levels. This follow-up report provides supplementary information on the prevalence of disabilities among adopted children, and on how adoptees fare in late elementary and middle school.