This design would allow for a direct test of genetically shaped evocative effects if it also incorporated measurement ofbirthparentpsychopathology.
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This association is tested in a simple adoption study by testing the association betweenbirthparentpsychopathology and child psychopathology.
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For children to participate, both foster parent andbirthparent(or proxy) consent were required.
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Genetic effects on the rearing environments can be broadly assessed by observing associations between relevantbirthparentvariables and rearing environment variables.
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Second, this finding suggests that the influence of representations of abirthparenton children's actual interpersonal behavior with other people may not be direct or invariant.
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It gives parental responsibility to a carer without removing it from abirthparent, as adoption does.
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An adopted person does not have legal entitlement to inherit from abirthparentunless his interest has been vested before the adoption order is made.
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Many children have remained in care or have been moved from foster home to foster home because thebirthparentfound it too difficult to let go.
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Where a step-parent adopts, we propose to end the anomaly that thebirthparentin the new marriage is obliged to adopt his or her own child.
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Adoption legally constitutes a child the son or daughter of a person that is not that child'sbirthparent.
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A stepparent adoption can still occur if the otherbirthparentrefuses to give consent or can not be located.
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The postadoption agreement shall be applicable only to abirthparentwho is a party to the agreement.
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Private agency adoptions involving newborns usually involve direct contact betweenbirthparent(s) and the adoptive family, as in independent adoption.
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Apart from 458 children reunited with their birth parents, domestic families adopted 3,627 of them.
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Although the child had been placed with a foster family, the investigation of her birth parents was continuing.
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