'Madonna' adoptions under fire.LIVERPOOL Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical psychologists This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline. say "Madonna-style" international adoptions are causing a rise in the number of children left in local orphanages. EU countries with the highest rates of children living in institutions also have high proportions of international adoptions, Liverpool university found. The study, published by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, highlights how people are choosing to adopt healthy, white children from abroad, rather than children in their own country. This process has been labelled the "Madonna effect" after the singer's high-profile adoption of a young boy from Zambia in 2006. Professor Kevin Browne, from Liverpool university's school of psychology, said: "Some argue international adoption International adoption, or intercountry adoption, is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parents of a child born in another country. is, in part, a solution to the large number of children in institutional care. But we have found the opposite is true." |
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