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Parenting

Relating to the process of raising a child from infancy to adulthood.

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orphanage

Parenting; Adoption

Institution that houses children who are orphaned, abandoned, or whose parents are unable to care for them. Orphanages are rarely used in the United States, although they are more ...

post-institutionalized child

Parenting; Adoption

Children adopted from institutional, hospital, or orphanage settings. The term is used to describe an array of emotional and psychological disturbances, developmental delays, ...

orphan

Parenting; Adoption

Although this term has essentially been eliminated from normal use in our modern society, with reference to adoptions, it is still used with a very specific definition in the ...

open adoption

Parenting; Adoption

Every adoption of this type will be different, based on the type of relationship that the birth parents and the adoptive parents have agreed to. Both identifying and ...

life book

Parenting; Adoption

A pictorial and written representation of the life of a child, which is designed to help the child better understand make sense of its unique background and history. Although ...

legal risk adoptions

Parenting; Adoption

An adoption program that is only available in some states, where prospective adoptive parents are allowed to become foster parents to children before they become legally available ...

interstate compact on the placement of children (I

Parenting; Adoption

An interstate compact, or agreement, that has been enacted into law by all 50 states in the United States, and the District of Columbia, which controls the lawful movement of ...