Essays about: "Adoptive Parents"
Found 5 essays containing the words Adoptive Parents.
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1. The experiences of adoptive parents rearing children with reactive attachment disorder : A systematic literature review
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, CHILDAbstract : Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is characterised by severely underdeveloped or absent attachment between a child and a caregiver. Adopted children who have experienced adverse early experiences prior to adoption may have lacked opportunities to form selective attachment relationships and, in rare cases, may have a diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder. READ MORE
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2. Growing up as Hybrid Plants A Multiple-Case Study on How Adoptive Parents Cope with the Chinese Origins of Their Adopted Children from China
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Transnational adoption is a type of adoption where the couple (or an individual) voluntarily become the permanent and legal parents of an adoptee from a different nation. Sweden has been actively participating the transnational adoption since the early 1970s, and from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, China had been one of the major donor countries for Sweden. READ MORE
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3. Almost The Same, But Not Quite: Mimicry, Mockery and Menace in Swedish Transracial Adoption Narratives
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This study examines the role and implications of mimicry (Bhabha, 1994) and colonial trans-lation (Young, 2003) in Swedish adoption narratives. Through a deconstructive narrative analysis of three Swedish adoption texts: Längtansbarnen: Adoptivförädrar berättar [The Longed for/Longing Children: Adoptive parents tell their story] (Weigl, 1997), Adoption: Banden som gör oss till familj [Adoption: the ties that make us a family] (Juusela, 2010), and Gul Utanpå [Yellow on the Outside] (Lundberg, 2013); the study explores how mimicry manifests itself in adoption narratives, the process of the translation of the adoptee into a mimic Swede, and how the transnational/-racial adoptee as a mimic poses a threat, as mimicry turns to menace. READ MORE
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4. Toward Innumerable Futures: Frank Stanford & Origins
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This thesis is a combined critical, biographical, and bibliographical study of American poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). A prodigious, prolific poet's poet, Stanford is a long-underappreciated artist whose unwavering legacy, in recent years, has grown to be an undeniable force in contemporary American poetry. READ MORE
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5. Abandoned New-Born Babies In Kampala-Uganda
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)Abstract : AbstractIntroduction: - An estimated number of 40 to 80 new-born babies are being abandoned by their mother in Kampala –Uganda annually. These children are usually dumped into dust bins, on streets, on hospital facilities, in bushes or in pit latrines. READ MORE
