Th.--Droit--Toulouse, 1910.

Thesis (M.Journ.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30). Also available in print.

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Droit privé--Paris 2, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 13-46. Index.

Th.--Méd.--Reims, 1977. N°: 43.

The suggestion is growing that adoption agencies have been severing ties with adoptive families too quickly following finalization of the adoption. Some social workers believe that the adoption agencies should offer services to adoption families after the adoption has been legally established. The purpose of this thesis is to study the attitudes of adoptive parents toward this suggestion; and to learn what kind of services they would use. For exploratory purposes, fifty adoptive families were selected from the files of the Vancouver Children's Aid Society. The adoptions had been completed between 1953 and 1957. Each child was placed as a small infant. A questionnaire was mailed to each family with an accompanying letter explaining the purpose of the study. The intent was that the adoptive family should show their desire to use post-adoption services, and indicate the specific kinds of services that they might find to be most helpful. A series of post-adoption discussions, offered by the Vancouver Children's Aid Society in cooperation with the University of British Columbia Extension Department, has been the only service available in Vancouver especially for adoptive parents. The analysis of the material obtained from the returned questionnaires indicates that the adoptive families do not desire any additional services in the community which are especially designed for adoptive families. Those families who have made use of available services uniformly report them as most adequate. The families responding indicated that adoption is a very satisfying means of obtaining a family, although also there are special challenges in the roles of adoptive parenthood. Unfortunately, the sample returns were approximately only twenty per cent of the total sample. This may indicate that most adoptive families are not experiencing problems and are therefore not conscious of the need for services. There is the possibility, however, that because the families were not prepared for participation in the study in advance they were reluctant to do so now. Indications are that further research ought to be conducted on some different basis in the area of post-adoption needs and services. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Because of the growing recognition that early, continuous and warm relationships are essential for a child's healthy development, it is important that children be placed in their adoptive home as early as possible and that the home be well chosen. But information about the origins of an adopted child is specially significant in several ways. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the subject of how adoptive parents tell their child he is adopted, and to assess their feelings and attitudes on this topic. For exploratory purposes, seven adoptive homes were selected from the files of the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver for study. The adoptions had been completed from five to nine years ago. Each child had been placed in his adoptive home as an infant under 5 months of age. All adoptive parents were interviewed, also the natural parents' file and adoption home files were studied. The study includes a brief description of the adoptive parents, their home, the child, and his adjustment in the home. The subject of telling the child he is adopted is focussed particularly on (a) method of giving the information; (b) time of introduction of the subject; (c) the child's reaction; and (d) questions asked by the child. The analysis of the material obtained indicates that these adoptive parents accepted as their responsibility telling their child he was adopted. Typically, the simple facts of how he came to live with them were told to the child as soon as he was old enough to understand. However, none of the children in the group studied had asked any questions about their natural parents, and all parents signified that they would wait until their child asked specific questions. This suggests that adoptive parents have difficulties in accepting natural parents, and their main area of concern is how and when to tell their child about them. It is indicated that adoption workers should give more guidance to adoptive parents before and after placement in this area, and that adoptive parents should be encouraged to return to the agency for help if needed. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Of the1117 children in care of the Children's Aid Society at the end of the year 1949, there were 200 between the ages of 6 and 10 years inclusive for whom adoption had not been completed. Of these 200 children, 177 were wards of the Society. Thirty-eight of these wards were on adoption probation, leaving a balance of 139 for whom there was no practical indication of adoption. The purpose of this study was to examine the reasons for non-adoption in this residual group and to attempt an analytical classification. The overall statistical material for the study was obtained as part of a group project, a group of students having cooperated in recording indication data on a card-index schedule for all children aged 6 to 10 in care during the year. The files of non-adoption cases were then read, and a classification was worked out and explemified from this material. Supplementary information was obtained from interviews with staff members of the Children's Aid Society, and the Child Guidance Clinic. The categories of non-adoption utilized are the following: "Adoptability’ Diagnoses, Placement Difficulties, Family Ties and Behavior Problems. "Adoptability" Diagnoses, and Family Ties, are more basic and fundamental as reservations preventing adoption, whereas Placement Difficulties and Behavior Problems are indicative of a more basic reservation and are, therefore, more of a somewhat circumstantial nature. The order of the groups was one of practical convenience in a narrowing of the focus of inquiry from reservations outside the Society to those reservations within the child himself. In order of importance as a reservation - "Adoptability" Diagnoses came first, Behavior Problems second, Placement Difficulties third, and Family ties, fourth. Results from the study show that there is not a good programme for adoption of older children, inspite of the fact that there are a good number of older children available for adoption. Social Workers would like to see older children become adopted but realize that it will take a definite planned programme, with a good deal of publicity that there are older children available for adoption, and extensive home-finding, before any real achievements can be possible. The total problem to be faced in this 139 group, is the focus upon an adoption policy and programme that will first clearly free the older child for adoption, and secondly, find him a suitable adoption home. Specific problems of the older child are the roots of the reservations. The older child is not only confronted with the basic factors determining his "adoptability" rating, but he is generally not easily freed from family ties, nor is he naturally as acceptable for adoption. It will be no easy task to take the reins, set the goals, and plan the course, but real evidence has been given that there is enthusiasm, courage, and interest within the Society to meet the needs of older children, and to plan for their futures, through adoption. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

This study concerns itself with the problem of the illegitimate child for whom adoption is requested but who, because of undesirable features in his background, is not considered suitable for adoptive placement. The whole field of adoption is receiving widespread publicity at the present time because of the tremendous demand for adoptable children, and as a result of this demand, the "black market" in babies. Because of this situation, and because of the growing recognition that adoption offers the most security to the unwanted child, it is of great importance that the adoptability of the child should be accurately determined. No child should be denied the advantages of adoptive placement who has the capacity to be absorbed into a family group, and to give satisfaction to those who care for him. The subject was attacked in two ways. First, a survey was made of all unmarried mothers who made any request for adoption to the Vancouver Children's Aid Society in 1941, and of the plans which were, made for the children. Second, a detailed study was made of those children in both Children's Aid Societies who were not considered adoptable and were therefore made wards of the agency and placed in paid boarding homes. The findings of the survey of adoption requests indicate that the concept of non-adoptability influences directly and inevitably the plan which is made for the illegitimate child. There are definite limitations to the assistance the agency can give to the unmarried mother who requests adoption but whose child the agency is hesitant to place. In some instances the mother kept the child despite a strong desire to release it; in others, she placed the child privately. Of the years total-of seventeen children free from any gross birth abnormality, but placed In boarding rather than adoptive-homes because of their background, sixteen have proved capable of complete absorption into a family group. No serious physical, mental or personality aberration is apparent, and the children are evidently able to give pleasure and satisfaction to the parents who care for them. The remaining one has since been institutionalized as mentally defective; this one exception illustrates the need for protective measures. In sixteen cases of successful development, the agency must now decide on the relative merits of (1) replacement in an adoption home, (2) allowing the boarding parents to adopt, and (3) continuing care on an indefinite boarding basis. The legal and social problems inherent in each of these alternatives give rise to the question whether children with unfavourable backgrounds might not, under certain safeguards, be placed for adoption. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Droit privé--Dijon, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 513-538. Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-206). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.