Which of the Following Is True About Adoption

question 50

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about adoption?

• A)Private adoptions are no longer legal because of the concern that it was "baby buying."
• B)Public adoptions occur through licensed public agencies that specialize in placing children in adoptive families.
• C)An open adoption was the common procedure in the past, but now most are either closed or semi-open.
• D)One study of how adoption is treated in college-level family textbooks found that the positive points outweighed the negative points about adoption, but just barely.
• E)Most adoptive parents are unmarried, but highly educated and have higher than average incomes.

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