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| | Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models, and Evaluation Issues: Analysis of Secondary Data: Adoption Dissolution, Disruption, and Supports in North Carolina |
 | | The remaining 18 percent of children might have experienced disruptions in adoptive placement or had changes in their adoption plans for other reasons, including reunification, emancipation, running away, or a conversion to a guardianship. |
 | | Given the confidentiality of the adoption process, multiple ID numbers for the same child are not linked, making it impossible to assess the experiences of children across the continuum of adoption events. |
 | | Exhibit 7 summarizes age at adoption, race, gender, and year of adoption for the approximately 1 percent of children who experienced a dissolution &; by the aforementioned criteria compared to those who did not. |
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