By viewing adoption and use of BIM as the inter-linkage of actors forming a building and construction project, the aim of the paper is to uncover mechanisms facilitating and constraining the creation of actor networks in which BIM is adopted and used.
I also believe if we took a deep breath and viewed adoption as trauma--trauma that can be overcome, trauma that some people may experience to a small or large degree--we would be better able to help adopted children heal and grow healthy, sooner [rather] than later.
"The returnees' leadership was instrumental to changing the way South Korea viewed adoptions," said the Rev. Kim Do-hyun, director of KoRoot, an advocacy group for Korean adoptees.
The theory involves a cost/benefit view of adoption and argues that potential adopters form rational decisions to adopt an innovation based on beliefs about certain characteristics formed by them with respect to the innovation.
An evaluative survey indicated that the program prompted parent child discussions, provided support to adoptive parents, and helped parents view the adoption experience from their children's perspective.
Adoption didn't "save" me; it served the American view of adoption.
Conservatives view the adoption of Keynesian economics as original sin, opening the door to a vast expansion of government.
When the care inquiry was launched in October, chair of the inquiry and chief executive of the Fostering Network Robert Tapsfield said the simplistic view that adoption and fostering was always the right option for children must be avoided.
The secretary's comments about the Middle East were not considered likely to dissuade the Europeans from their strongly held view that adoption of the new peace proposal -- and other signs of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- is more urgent than ever.
Nevertheless, under new legislation and guidance, a child who has been voluntarily placed in care by a parent can be removed by a local authority and placed with foster parents with a view to adoption without a parent being notified or receiving legal advice, a situation that the charity Family Rights Group is rightly campaigning to change.
