A study of sixteen committed children who, in spite of the presence of pathological factors in both their familial and own history have attained adoption through the Rhode Island Child Welfare services

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / It is the purpose of this thesis to find out the steps
by which the agency's staff try to help children with pathological factors achieve adoption status. The writer presents the following questions: 1) What is the nature of the pathology in the parental and family background which makes adoption
questionable? 2) Nature of pathology in the child? 3)
What are the resources and methods used to help the child
achieve adoption status? 4) What ere the factors which finally
determine the chiLlds adoptability?

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1. b14712611
2. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/23935

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Child adoption

Rhode Island

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/23935
Date	January 1952
Creators	Lyons, Helen Louise
Publisher	Boston University
Source Sets	Boston University
Language	en_US
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis/Dissertation
Rights	Based on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.