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Peer reviewedAdlard, Carole R. – Adoption Quarterly, 1999
Details creation of Adoption Option, Inc., a public adoption agency founded in 1986 in Ohio. Highlights three program areas of agency's mission: (1) training for those who assist pregnant women/teens with unplanned pregnancies; (2) educational programs for school-based health curricula; and (3) media initiative to convey accurate information about…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Biological Parents
Peer reviewedWeir, Kyle N. – Adoption Quarterly, 2000
Examines the developmental, familial, and peer deterrents that form barriers to adoption placement, based on interviews with 17 teen mothers in a residential facility. Analyzes responses based on an Eriksonian developmental model, and notes the role of family "cutoffs" and "re-admissions" and peer pressure as deterrents to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adoption
Peer reviewedMoore, Nelwyn B.; Davidson, J. Kenneth, Sr. – Adoption Quarterly, 2002
Administered an anonymous questionnaire to pregnant adolescents living at a residential facility in a southwestern city while they were in the process of deciding whether to keep their infant or place it for adoption. Found that contextual variables influenced the choice of placing for adoption, including family background and interaction…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Adoption
