Fig. 4.1 Percentage of adopted children who were adopted transracially, by adoption type It is common for adopted children to be curious about meeting their birth families. This is known…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Heidi Schwarzwald, Elizabeth Montgomery Collins, Susan Gillespie and Adiaha I. A Spinks-FranklinInternational Adoption and Clinical PracticeSpringerBriefs in Public Health10.1007/978-3-319-13491-8_6 6. The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children And Co-operation in Respect…
Characteristic Adopted CSHCN (total)% Foster care % Private domestic % International % Percent 100 46.3 34.7 19 Private health insurance 1.95 2.14 3.10* 3.11* No Siblings 1.88 2.52 3.55* 4.06*…
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