Usage Note: Children are adopted by parents, and we normally refer to an adopted child but to adoptive parents, families, and homes. When describing places, one can use either adopted or adoptive: her adopted city; her adoptive city. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fi...
Sir Mark Potter P, Arden and Wall LJJ agreed in the Court of Appeal that while the prohibition on publication contained in s 97(2) of the Children Act 1989 prevented identification of children involved in Children Act proceedings while the proceedings were continuing, that prohibition ended once ...
Social medicine The act of lawfully assuming the parental rights and responsibilities of another person, usually a child under the age of 18; the care and nurturing of a child by a non-blood-related adult who assumes the roles, rights, and obligations of a natural parent; 2% of children <...
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The Minnesota Minority Heritage Preservation Act mandated a preference for placing children with relatives and adoptive parents of the same race (Minn. Stat. Ann. § 259.57(2)). An intermediate appeals court and the Minnesota Supreme Court agreed with the lower court that under the law, the Vir...
A further attempt by him to stop the adoption was blocked by the council using the 2002 Adoption and Children Act. Yesterday’s ruling was in response to the father’s appeal on grounds of a breach to his human rights. “The council’s failure to answer that letter and subsequent placement...
This article reports that international adoption of children rules have been redrawn at a Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. The resolution regulat... Sperry,Shelley - 《National Geographic》 被引量: 5发表: 2008年 Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network In lieu of an abstract, ...
The adoption and maintenance of physical activity (PA) is an important health behavior. This paper presents the first comprehensive empirical test of the Physical Activity Adoption and Maintenance (PAAM) model, which proposes that a combination of explic
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(ii) are brought under the Children Act 1989 or the Adoption and Children Act 2002; or (iii) otherwise relate wholly or mainly to the maintenance or upbringing of a minor; (b) where the proceedings are brought under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, or under any provision of the Mental Healt...