Adoption explained
Adoption can give a secure family life to children who, for various reasons, can't live with their birth family. Intercountry adoption provides families for children from other countries. Adoption means the people caring for the child become the ... [... more]
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Wheat, barley and other winter cereals
Profitable winter cereal growing demands higher production per unit area at lower cost per unit of production. This can only be achieved by increasing grain yields through economic adoption of new or improved technology and by adopting the latest ... [... more]
NSW Agriculture |
What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?
A parent or adoptive parent may have a child who has been subjected to this practice before adoption or emigration to Australia. In this case it would be a good idea to inform child care workers or early childhood educators to ensure that the ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Searching for birth parents
Being adopted may feel quite straightforward when you are young, but when you are a teen, you will probably have lots of questions that you want answered, and you could have some very strong feelings to cope with. Adoption is usually a very open ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Coping with older children when a new child arrives
Most children who have been adopted from another country do as well with loving parenting as any other children, but there are some issues and things to think about that are different from those of other children. Adoption is a big step and can ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Adoption
Finding out you were adopted may be a hard thing to come to terms with. When you find out in later life, like in your teenage years, it can be even harder. It might feel like everything in your life has changed and you donâEURt know your place ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Adoption
Adopting a child is one of the most important decisions that you can ever make. The decisions that you make after the adoption, as your children reach each new stage in their development, are also important. Often adoptive parents wonder whether ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Ray Hutchins
As a young gunner, Napoleon Bonaparte was trained in one of Europe's finest artillery arms. Both the technological sophistication of their weaponry and the skill of their gunners was largely the result of the adoption of the system devised by one ... [... more]
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Bob Oehler
The adoption of blitzkrieg tactics in the German Army prior to the start of World War II meant that Germany needed a new kind of fighting vehicle to transport troops around the battlefield in support of the Panzer spearheads. It was in response ... [... more]
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Dawn Davenport
From the initial decision-Is adoption right for you?-through returning home with your child-How can you ease the transition?-The Complete Book of International Adoption takes parents step by step through the entire process of adopting a child ... [... more]
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Charles Freeman
Charles Freeman is a freelance academic and the author of more than five books, including the A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development ... [... more]
Random House |
David M. Brodzinsky
David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter and Robin Marantz Henig Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major ... [... more]
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