Examined attitudes toward adoption of adolescent mothers who elected to raise their babies and their mothers (N=105 pairs) and adolescents who released babies for adoption (N=14). Examined perceptions about fate of adopted children, perceptions of adopted child's integration into natural family, knowledge of adoption, and attitudes toward open…

Examined gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation. Surveyed adolescents (n=577) using vignette involving unplanned pregnancy. Findings showed similar percentages of males and females preferred abortion and adoption as strategies for handling pregnancy, but females were more likely to select…

Provides an overview of issues that families encounter over time in the adoption of children with special needs. Reports on a two-year survey of special needs adoption, which supported much of the conclusions provided by cross-sectional studies. Implications of the findings for the service system are discussed. (TJQ)

Examines effective permanence planning for children, focusing on the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) strategy. Cites the importance of maintaining children with their birth families, while recognizing that some children remain too long in damaging family settings. Examines the issues of child attachment and contact. Calls for an…

Reports the findings of a study that examined the views of seven adoptive couples on postadoption contact with their children's birth parents. Discusses the feelings of the adopters, advantages and disadvantages of contact, and how contact affects the parents' relationship with the child and with the birth parent. (TJQ)

Continuing medical education providers often develop implementation strategies for clinical practice guidelines and can help facilitate their adoption. Their efforts will be more effective if they reinforce guidelines through local study groups, opinion leaders, clinical recall interviews, audits, and individualized feedback. (SK)

Correlations on subscales of Wechsler intelligence quotient tests and the Revised Beta Examination were obtained for biologically related and unrelated individuals in 181 adoptive families in the Texas Adoption Project. Generally higher correlations for biologically related individuals support the importance of genetic influence in intellectual…

Reviews "Nonprofits for Hire" (Steven R. Smith and Michael Lipsky), on the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing or accepting government purchase-of-service contracts; "Birthmothers" (Merry B. Jones); "Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect" (National Research Council); and "Young, Poor, and Pregnant"…

Points out that, contrary to the British Government's argument in the White Paper that services can be changed with no additional funding, the commitment of substantial financial and human resources are needed to provide adequate postadoption services. (SW)

Describes the establishment, promotion, and five-year progress of a postadoption service in Hampshire, England. (SW)

Discussion of the adaptation of technology in higher education highlights a questionnaire that is intended to help determine how instructor-friendly video production facilities are and if they contribute to long-range voluntary faculty involvement. Based on experiences of the Courses via Telecommunications program at North Carolina State…

Reports findings from a survey completed by 105 Canadian families with adopted children from Romania. Results reflect the parents' perceptions of the adoption experience, the condition of the child on adoption, the parents' subsequent developmental concerns, and the children's progress. Parents' perceived needs and concerns are reported, and…

Analyzes adoption information from courts, social service agencies, and bureaus of vital records for 1991 and 1992. Finds that adoptions by step-parents constitute nearly half of all adoptions, and that individually arranged adoptions are likely to be by relatives. Suggests that the information provided constitutes a baseline for measurement of…

A study to determine the behavior of business education teachers relative to their adoption of the microcomputer as a tool for delivering instruction received 203 responses from a sample of 400 teachers. The majority favor the use of microcomputers and use them for delivering instruction. (JOW)

Examines terms used to describe the changing of an innovation by an adopter, including reinvention, fidelity, adaptation, and mutual adaptation. Three explanations for adaptation of innovation--interpretation, adopter innovativeness, and generative learning--are discussed; and the theory of generative learning is used to explain internal…