AND MORE COOL ADOPTION FACTS

Check it out! These are interesting bits of trivia.

1. What year did the Indian Child Welfare Act become instituted?

1965

1978

1981

1990

2. True or False: A pregnant young woman whose mother has higher education is more likely to parent, rather than place her child for adoption

True

False

3. What is post-adoption depression?

Regret for having adopted

Inability to care for the adopted child

Very similar to baby-blues

It doesn't exist

4. True or False: Shi'ite Muslims do not allow adoption

True

False

5. True or False: Sunni Muslims do not allow adoption

True

False

6. True or False: In ancient Rome, women were allowed to adopt only if she had already lost a biological child

True

False

7. In what decade did states begin to seal the birth certificates of adopted children?

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

8. When did adoption laws change so that children were no longer adopted for

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s