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McDaniel, Susan | Adoption policy in Great Britain and North America | This paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of exi... | Adoption law; Family; North America | 1984 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Reconceptualizing the nuptiality/fertility relationship in Canada in a new age | First comes love; then comes marriage; along comes Joanie with a baby carriage. This straightforward temporal sequence so long taken for granted in North America may no longer be valid. With marriage rates declining, birth rates at an historic low, births occurring outside legal marriage, and dramat... | Marriage; Family; Feminist | 1989 |
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Francis, Leslie | Roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients | This article is about the roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients. It argues that complex moral reasons call for the participation of families in decision making for incompetents. However, these moral reasons do not support a single model of the family's role for... | Family; Health Care Decisions; Patients; Family Rights | 2006-06-16 |
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Wen, Ming; Van Duker, Heather; Olson, Lenora Mary | Social contexts of regular smoking in adolescence: towards a multidimensional ecological model | Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study investigates factors at the individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, and state levels that are important for subsequent adolescent cigarette regular smoking after controlling for the baseline smoking behavio... | Adolescent smoking; Social capital; Family; Neighborhood; School; Teenagers; Teenage smoking | 2006-09-19 |
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