A Profile of Adoption Placers

Perceptions of Pregnant Teens During the Decision-Making Process

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12460201
AutoresNelwyn B Moore (a Emerita of Family Science at Southwest Texas State University , USA, autor correspondente), J Kenneth Davidson (b Department of Sociology , the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire , Eau Claire, WI, 54702, USA E-mail)
Ano2002
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas29-41
Data de publicação2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAdoption Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1092-6755 • E-ISSN: 1544-452X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j145v06n02_03
OpenAlexW2273476856
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas14

Since adoption can solve both personal and societal problems, it is important to identify salient variables related to the perceptions of pregnant adolescents while in the process of deciding to keep or place their baby. An anonymous questionnaire administered at a residential facility for pregnant, unmarried persons in a Southwestern metropolitan area was the basis for this investigation of 178 teens who placed their baby for adoption. A number of contextual variables appear to influence the choice of adoption: family background and interaction patterns, religious values, cognitive factors, and peer relations

Cognition · Developmental psychology · Geography · Metropolitan area · Perception · Process (computing · Salient · Child Welfare and Adoption · Computer Science · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology