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7. Adoption of Children Born to Adolescents
7. Adoption of Children Born to Adolescents
Pages 133-140
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There is no national system for the collection of data on adoptions or the characteristics of mothers who relinquish children for adoption. The data presented here are from the National Survey of Family Growth, National Survey of Young Women (NSYW)
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It should be noted that under-reporting is presumed on survey questions concerning relinquishment for adoption; however, the extent of under-reporting cannot be est imated in the absence of data from any other reporting system. The data for 1976 and 1971 are from the National Surveys of Young Women.
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~ 0.7 1973 or later 4.6 Be 0 0.1 Source: C oA. Bachrach, "Adoptive PI ens, Adopted Children, and Adopted Mothers", Journal of Marriage and the Family, 48 (May 1986~: 243-253.
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Among white women who were age 17 or younger at the birth of the child, 17.2 percent placed the child for adoption compared to 1 percent of black women who were age 17 or younger at the birth of the child. Of women who had a premarital birth before 1973, 19.5 percent of the white women and .7 percent of black women placed the child for adoption.
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Adoptions by relatives of the child are included in both totals and represent approximately 15 percent of the total number of adoptions for both categories although they are not tabulated separately f rom nonrelative adoptions. Source: Program Information Series Reports; Department of Social Services, California, 1985.
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The important features of these data are the trends in the dec reasing number of total adoptions and the declining proportion of adopted babies whose birth mothers were less than age 19 or 20. In 1969 there were 8,151 relinquishment adoptions and 3, 563, or 44 percent, of those babies were born to mothers under age 20.
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