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Having a college educated mother increases an adoptee's probability of graduating from college by 7 percentage points, but raises a biological child's probability of graduating from college by 26 percentage points.
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An adoptee's spin on this by Amyadoptee on Tuesday, Sep 25, 2007 at 10: 08: 25 PM
A Pitiless Plan A: Denying Plan B Emergency Contraception to Victims of Rape 2007
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These are the same as in an adoptee's agenda in such a search.
Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him. Ann Althouse 2007
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"I have tremendous concerns about celebrity adoptions… From the adoptee's point of view, it is vitally important to know who they are and where they came from, or it can have profound medical and psychological effects."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"I have tremendous concerns about celebrity adoptions… From the adoptee's point of view, it is vitally important to know who they are and where they came from, or it can have profound medical and psychological effects."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Believe it or not, there is a growing trend in this country of adopting one's adult lover or spouse for various reasons: to better guarantee the adoptee's right to inherit directly from the adoptor; to keep other relatives from having any standing to contest an estate plan; or, as in Goodman's case, to add a spouse or lover to a class of trust beneficiaries, allowing the "child" to inherit from the "parent."
Slate Articles Terry L. Turnipseed 2012
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I don't feel it is an adoptee's burden to bear that someone didn't divulge their previous marital exploits.
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Does the birthmother's right for contact supersede the adoptee's right to privacy?
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Does the birthmother's right for contact supersede the adoptee's right to privacy?
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Conversations about international adoption and the emotional toll that adoption can cause for adult adoptee's and their parents are common and usually based on how to maintain one's cultural identity yet adapt to a new and sometimes hostile environment.
BlogHer - Comments Grace27spam 2010
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