Exempel på birth parent

• This design would allow for a direct test of genetically shaped evocative effects if it also incorporated measurement of birth parent psychopathology.

• This association is tested in a simple adoption study by testing the association between birth parent psychopathology and child psychopathology.

• For children to participate, both foster parent and birth parent (or proxy) consent were required.

• Genetic effects on the rearing environments can be broadly assessed by observing associations between relevant birth parent variables and rearing environment variables.

• Second, this finding suggests that the influence of representations of a birth parent on children's actual interpersonal behavior with other people may not be direct or invariant.

• It gives parental responsibility to a carer without removing it from a birth parent, as adoption does.

• An adopted person does not have legal entitlement to inherit from a birth parent unless his interest has been vested before the adoption order is made.

• Many children have remained in care or have been moved from foster home to foster home because the birth parent found it too difficult to let go.

• Where a step-parent adopts, we propose to end the anomaly that the birth parent in the new marriage is obliged to adopt his or her own child.

• Adoption legally constitutes a child the son or daughter of a person that is not that child's birth parent.

• A stepparent adoption can still occur if the other birth parent refuses to give consent or can not be located.

• The postadoption agreement shall be applicable only to a birth parent who is a party to the agreement.

• Private agency adoptions involving newborns usually involve direct contact between birth parent(s) and the adoptive family, as in independent adoption.

• Apart from 458 children reunited with their birth parents, domestic families adopted 3,627 of them.

• Although the child had been placed with a foster family, the investigation of her birth parents was continuing.