The impending revolution : the prospect for openness in Korean-American adoptions
This thesis explores the potential for openness in international adoptions and, more specifically, in Korean-American adoptions. Open adoptions are becoming more common in the United States. More adoptees are also searching for their birthfamilies. These changes resulted from social evolutions that reduced the stigmas surrounding adoption and illegitimacy. Changes in domestic adoptions affect international adoptions because both international adoptees and their adoptive parents are exposed to the adoption rights movements in this country. It seems probable that international adoptees will desire contact with their birthfamily as domestic adoptees have. This thesis uses the trend toward openness in the United States and the regulations governing international adoptions to create a list of factors to be evaluated when determining if openness in an international adoption would be beneficial to all members of the adoption triad, specifically the birthmothers, and therefore, probable. It is important to recognize that a birthmother may not always benefit from an open adoption. These factors include residency requirements for the adoptive parents during the adoption proceedings; specific definitions of adoption; stigmatization of illegitimacy; reverence for blood ties; the national divorce rate; population control legislation; a women's health care movement; and an adoption rights movement or birthmother organizations. Evaluating the specific situation in Korea at this time, it seems unlikely that open adoptions are currently possible. However, many social changes, especially connected with the status of women in Korean society, are currently taking place that will likely make open adoptions possible in the future. Thesis Advisor: Sally Haslanger Associate Professor of Philosophy
Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting
Stories of Adoption: Loss and Reunion , by Eric Blau, 131 pp, with illus, paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-939165-17-1, Pasadena, Calif, NewSage Press, 1993. In Family Bonds Elizabeth Bartholet, a professor of law at Harvard, combines personal experience and professional perspective to criticize the state of adoption and assisted reproduction in this country and to offer proposals for the reform of both. Although adoption has its own history while reproductive technology has proceeded independently apace, Bartholet's social perspective on parenting examines the two both separately and together. In her view, couples expend too much time, energy, and heartache in fertility workups, while adoption remains exclusivist, overregulated, and stigmatized. In light of her own experiences with childbirth, unsuccessful in vitro fertilization (IVF), and international adoption, she writes, "There may be some inborn need to procreate, but there are also inborn needs to nurture. Why does organized society seem to want to encourage its
Testing digital circuits using a Mixed-Signal Automatic Test Equipment
This paper presents the results of parametric testing of digital ICs using a dedicated Mixed Signal Automatic Testing Equipment. Due to the prohibitive price of the ATE equipment and dedicated Device Interface Board (DIB) for digital Integrated Circuits (ICs), a DIB for analog circuits was used to perform the testing. Despite the challenges presented by the experiments, the results prove to be accurate for the performed tests, according to the data sheet of the digital ICs and production test data provided by the manufacturer.