Which of the Following Types of Adoption Generally Involves Placing

question 44

Multiple Choice

Which of the following types of adoption generally involves placing children who have been orphaned or whose parents have lost or relinquished parental rights through abuse, abandonment, or the inability to support them?

• A) private adoption
• B) agency adoption
• C) identified adoption
• D) relative adoption
• E) independent adoption

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Definitions:

Maternal Reading

The practice of mothers reading aloud to their children, which fosters language development and literacy skills.

Conservation Tasks

Cognitive tasks developed by Piaget to assess a child's ability to recognize that certain properties of objects, such as quantity or volume, can remain the same despite changes in the form or arrangement of the objects.

Piagetian Preoperational Stage

A developmental stage in early childhood (approximately aged 2-7 years) characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and a lack of logical operations, according to Piaget's theory.

Conservation

In cognitive development, the understanding that an object's or substance's quantity remains the same despite changes in its shape or form.