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THE EFFECT OF ADOPTION STATUS ON WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT

Payne, Krista Kay
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1158600892

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Currently over 134,000 children in the United States foster care system are awaiting adoption placements. A major hurdle in the search for adoptive placements lies in knowing the type of people who have considered adopting for the purpose of recruiting them as adoptive parents. Data from a national sample of women interviewed in 1995 are analyzed using logistic regression to evaluate determinants of considering adoption of adult adoptees as compared to non-adoptees. Results indicate that adoptees are about 2 times as likely to consider adopting than non-adoptees. This effect remains essentially unchanged when race, ethnicity, education, marital status, income, fertility and parity are added to the equation. All but two of the predictors (poverty level income and being formerly married) have statistically significant effects. Blacks and Hispanics are more likely than non-Hispanic Whites to have considered adopting, as are more educated respondents. The never married are less likely than the currently married to have considered adoption. Similarly, fecundity is negatively related to being willing to adopt. There is an interaction between age and parity, such that for those with fewer children willingness to adopt increases as age increases. Implications of these findings for recruiting adoptees as adoptive parents are reviewed.
Gary Lee (Advisor)
73 p.
adoptees; considering adoption

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  • Payne, K. K. (2006). THE EFFECT OF ADOPTION STATUS ON WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1158600892

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Payne, Krista. THE EFFECT OF ADOPTION STATUS ON WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1158600892.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Payne, Krista. "THE EFFECT OF ADOPTION STATUS ON WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1158600892

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