Results for Adoption Studies

If you are a stepparent and decide to adopt your spouse’s children, we want to congratulate you. Becoming your stepchildren’s legal guardian can give stepchildren a sense of security and confirm your commitment to your spouse and his or her family. Even if you have already accepted your stepchildren as your own in your heart, making it official can have many rewards and benefits. Step 1: Filing Adoption Court Forms

Research by the Alliance of Community Health Plans revealed five best practices for health plans that want to influence and support physicians in the exam room.

Businesses continue to install tools like Skype, Slack, Yammer, HipChat, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams, but many struggle to get users to adopt them. Adoption, however is not something that comes overnight; it requires in-depth strategies. Here are ways to ensure people make use of your collaboration tools.

Expert adoption advice for those looking to adopt or parenting adopted children, with advice on topics including adoption steps, types of adoption, parenting adopted children, and more

This week is my daughter Amanda’s thirty-third birthday. We adopted her from Korea when she was only three months old
Once we adopted her, things for her radically changed. She became a legal part of our family. We gave her a new name and her status was changed. She was no longer an alien from another country. As an American citizen she was afforded full rights and privileges of that position. She was no longer an orphan as she was now a daughter.…

Myths and other challenges surrounding adoption can intimidate people with the desire to adopt, but knowing the truth can change everything.

Why was it important to you to be so open and honest about your personal story
I wanted to get better. I wanted to enjoy a life of long-term recovery. The old AA saying is spot on: “You’re only as sick as your secrets.” I certainly hoped, and it has turned out to be true, that if I told my story, it would inspire others to tell their stories. Most American families suffer in silence and feel their situation is unique, when it’s…

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“Tell My Son” and wife adopted a baby born to a teenage niece. Now age 5 or 6, Jake has always known he was adopted. His parents showed him a photo of his birth mom, Tara, when he was old enough. They told him he could get more information about his birth parents any time he wanted
At some early point the wife was advised to “never give Jake more information than he wants.”
Due to geographic distance, Jake and Tara have seen…

What it Means to be a Waiting Family in our Infant Adoption Program You stumble across an adoption website, happy, smiling faces with photos of a couple’s home, their favorite hobbies, their pets. Maybe you’ve seen a profile shared on social media, or see an ad for a family …

"She was adopted at birth and taken straight home from the hospital. She didn't experience any trauma or neglect. How is it possible that she is such a terror at home? How can she be diagnosed with an attachment disorder?"
"We thought love would be enough to overcome all the years of hurt and pain he experienced. He was finally in a home where he wasn't being abused. How come he seems to push us away and provokes us to the point of…

My baby will start pre-K in the fall (how in the world is this possible?), and it’s got me thinking...

It was just a quick trip to the bank to do a financial transaction that required a banker and not a...

Drug-related deaths globally are increasing year on year, with the largest proportion of these being opioid-related. The opioid antagonist naloxone distributed for take-home use (‘Take-Home Naloxone (THN)’) has been championed as one method of tackling this public health crisis, however to be effective it must be available at an opioid overdose. Ownership and carriage are therefore fundamental to THN success. A new research study conducted by…

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Most people adopting a dog expect furry affection and bright-eyed companionship. Ingrid Pipes is looking for that and something a step above.
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Pipes, a 27-year-old copywriter in Pittsburgh, and her husband recently adopted Hudson, a miniature…

With medical marijuana legal in states like California, Colorado, Illinois and a growing list, adoption of the drug is becoming more and more commonplace—as is consumption. We consulted doctors and medical resources to discover what happens if you smoke marijuana every day. (Note: do not use marijuana without consulting a medical professional first.) 1 First, The Positive Effects Marijuana has been shown to be an effective…

I have spent the last two decades responding to the addiction crisis
10/02/2017 05:43 pm ET Updated Oct 02, 2017
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The CDC released a report recently showing that life expectancy in the US had fallen due to the opioid crisis. After decades of steady increase in life expectancy due to advances in medicine, surgery, prevention and immunizations we are sliding back due to the scale of the opioid pandemic. I was sad, but not shocked. I was not at…