Adoption
Adopting a child with special needs takes up within a few months. For a healthy infant, the wait will be
Between 2-7 years
A person who was adopted as a child
What is an adoptee?
Allowed foreign-born adoptees to become automatic American citizens
Child Citizenship Act of 2000
World's smallest, edible fruit
Duckweed
During pregnancy, you have the right to decide on adoption and change your mind later. If you choose adoption, you'll have to sign official "________" after your baby is born
Birth parents and adoptive family have limited or no information about each other, and they don't stay in contact after adoption process is finished
Closed adoption (confidential adoption)
Oregon voters passed _______, allowing adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates
Ballot Measure 58
During WWII, a _____ name Wotjek joined the Polish army. He carried ammunition and often drank beer.
bear
Average cost for adoption
$34,093-$39,966
Adoption by a relative happens when someone in the biological parent's family adopts the child
kinship adoption
First recorded transracial adoption of an American-African child by white parents took place...
In Minnesota,1948
The national animal of Scotland is...
The unicorn
There are currently 400,000 children in foster care and only ______ are adopted
135,000 children
An adoption that involves contact between biological and adoptive parents and sometimes between biological and adopted child
What is an open adoption?
Commercial maternity homes, and adoption ad investigations took place in Boston, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities
Baby farming
For 67 consecutive years, this name was America's most popular female baby name. Linda broke the streak in 1947.
Mary
This act extends the safeguards provided by accreditation to Orphans who are being adopted from countries that are not party to the Hague Adoption Convention, to their parents and birth parents
Universal Accreditation Act of 2012
Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt, and Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt are an example of...
What is transracial adoption?
His father abandoned the family and his mother died shortly after. Considered an orphan, he was sent to live with the ____ family in Virginia who raised him to adulthood. He became an American writer known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his mysteries
Edgar Allan Poe
Last movie ever rented at a corporate Blockbuster was...
"This is the End," at a store in Hawaii