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Parenting
Relating to the process of raising a child from infancy to adulthood.
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adoption triad
Parenting; Adoption
A term used to describe the three-sided relationship that exists in an adoption between birth parents, adoptive parents and the adoptee, each of which is interrelated and ...
trans-racial adoptions
Parenting; Adoption
An adoption in which a family of one race adopts a child of another race.
relinquishment
Parenting; Adoption
A birthparent voluntarily gives up his or her parental rights to a child, so that someone else can adopt it. In practice it generally refers to these parental rights being ...
re-adoption or validation of foreign adoption
Parenting; Adoption
The practice of adopting a foreign child in the United States after it has already been adopted by its adoptive parents in the foreign country of its origin. The most common ...
reactive attachment disorder (RAD)
Parenting; Adoption
A condition that generally appears in children before age five, and is thought to result from a lack of consistent care and nurturing in early years. The disorder is characterized ...
post-placement report
Parenting; Adoption
A written report that is prepared for the court in an adoption case by an adoption caseworker that makes a series of personal visits to the home of the adoptive parents. The ...
post-adoption period
Parenting; Adoption
This is a period of time of an unspecified length after an adoption is finalized during which the members of this new group of legally related individuals learn together to become ...
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- Adoption (504)
- Birth control (7537)
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- Child rearing (292)
- Childbirth (66)
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