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| Family background factors
included were mother's education (less than high school, high
school, some college and bachelor's degree or higher), family
structure at age 14 (two biological or adoptive parents, one biological
and one adoptive parent or stepparent, single biological parent and
other) and a dichotomous measure of whether the respondent's mother
had had her first birth as a teenager. Despite vows by Los Angeles County officials last year to help a
teenage runaway foster child find a home, the now 17-year-old says she
has had little help finding adoptive parents. A full and final adoption establishes a
parent-child relationship; it can occur only if both adoptive parents,
or the sole adoptive parent (in adoptions by one parent) see the orphan
before or during the adoption proceedings. |
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