The University of Minnesota has some amazing scholars researching adoption. Here is a presentation by Megan Gunnar, Department Chair and Regents Professor at the Institute on Child Development here at the University of Minnesota, presenting a keynote address on the developing adolescent brains of post-institutionalized adopted children at the 2012 Rudd Adoption Conference, New Worlds [...]
A new study conducted for Oxygen Media surveyed more than 1,000 Americans about their views on adoption. According to the report: 86% of women and 77% of men are open to single parent adoption;73% of women and 62% of men are open to gay and lesbian couples adopting;90% of women and 84% of men thought [...]
As someone who is interested in understanding the impact of adoption on children, youth, families, and social welfare systems, one of my biggest frustrations is that there seems to be concurrently an over-abundance of data, and yet the adoption data is very unorganized, un-centralized and differs greatly depending on who is managing the data. This [...]
Each Friday on the Stability, Permanency and Adoption blog we will provide a selection of news from the past week that you may have missed. Today's news round up: An article published in Pediatrics by Jones et al (2011) assesses the impact of missing or altered birth and medical information on internationally adopted children's health [...]
According to a report from Chlid Trends released on December 9, 2011, youth in foster care have an increased risk of having a child as teen parent. These young parents experience many challenges and often, outcomes for these youth and their children are poor. Teen Parents in Foster Care: Risk Factors and Outcomes for Teens [...]