News tagged with adoptive child
The 'blues' can surprise even adoptive parents
The unmet or unrealistic expectations adoptive parents often have is a recurring theme in postadoption depression, according to research from Purdue University.
Mar 31, 2010 |
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More support needed for families adopting from foster care
A new University of Illinois study of families adopting from foster care revealed significant declines in professional services and social support over the first three years of adoptive family life, even though parents indicated ...
May 14, 2009 |
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The future of health care
The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other developed nation, and has the highest growth rate in health care costs, as well. In 2009, these costs reached $2.5 trillion, making up ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Ultrasound male contraceptive, overlooked for decades, confirmed to work
Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New study confirms that mom's love good for child's brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Psychologists analyze development of prejudices within children
Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and do not get into mischief as often as boys. Prejudices like these are cultivated from early ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Top German court upholds sunbed ban for under-18s
Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that minors should be banned from visiting tanning studios due to health concerns, upholding a law that caused controversy in one of Europe's top sunbed markets.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Study: paid family leave leads to positive economic outcomes
With a growing need for family-friendly workplace policies, a new study commissioned by the National Partnership for Women & Families, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, concludes that providing paid family leave ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Female feticide in Canada requires action
Canada should prohibit disclosure of the sex of a fetus until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat female feticide which is practised by some ethnic groups in Canada and the United States, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canad ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Most parents who get tested for breast cancer genes share results with their children
A new study has found that when parents get tested for breast cancer genes, many of them share their results with their children, even with those who are very young. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journa ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Panel urges lower cutoff for child lead poisoning
(AP) -- For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children.
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Telling the truth
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study shows that children as young as three or four years old can talk informatively and accurately about experiences – including incidents of abuse – if they are interviewed ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2011 |
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