"This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-…
"This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-…
1.1. Retsmedicin og retspsykiatri 1.2. Lovsprog og lægesprog 1.2.1. Terminologi i lovene 1.2.2. Særligt om blandede kriterier I.3. Organisation af retspsykiatrien 1.4.1. Retslægerådets organisation og arbejdsform 2. Frihedsberøvelse og anden tvang 2.1. Psykiatriloven af 1…
Rules of the House examines the transformation of the Korean family during and after Japanese colonial rule. Through in-depth reading of civil litigation records, the book shows how the Japanese colonial legal system transformed Korean families from the traditional patrilineal f…
Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an understanding of a complex range of issues. These issues intersect at multiple levels and processes, span geographic and political bounda…
Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an understanding of a complex range of issues. These issues intersect at multiple levels and processes, span geographic and political bounda…
Adoption as sons is a new covenant reality that is not fully experienced by Old Testament saints as it is merely foreshadowing what is to come in Christ as the mediator of a new covenant. Covenant theology is evaluated, and a different way forward is presented to show what Old T…
The Chinese government enacted the one-child policy during the late 1970s and early 1980s to curb the growth of the country’s swelling population. This extreme form of family planning marked the beginning of a radical social experiment that profoundly affected Canada’s social an…
This study used a phenomenological approach to examine the lived experiences of African American/Black adults adopted as children by same race parents, from the adopted persons’ perspective. To increase the rigor of this study, Braun and Clarke’s method of thematic analysis was …
In the criminal justice system, risk assessment instruments (RAIs) provide information about justice involved individuals that court officials use to make various decisions. This dissertation explores the adoption and impact of state-level policies regarding the use of risk asse…
Adoptive law and policy is aimed to achieve permanent emotional connections to a new family. Adoptions of children from the American foster care system have a high failure rate, leaving nearly 30,000 children entering adult society with no permanent family connections, support, …
Thousands of parents make the decision to foster and/or adopt children who have suffered various forms of abuse and neglect. There are hundreds of thousands of children who are waiting to be adopted or to be placed in foster care (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2016). Many o…
This dissertation argues that parents positively influence a child’s perception of his own adoption experience by modeling for him the doctrine of adoption as an aspect of salvation in Christ. The particular focus within the adoption experience will be the adopted child’s broken…
This thesis critically examines Canadian intercountry adoption law in light of international children’s rights commitments, the best interests of the child framework, and the principle of family reunification. Relying on theories that immigration and citizenship are tools and ob…
This dissertation examines nineteenth century French and twentieth century Francophone texts in which the themes of colonization and adoption intersect. I first examine nineteenth century literary texts in which a mythological conception of French identity takes shape; this iden…