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© British Association of Social Workers

A Comment on ‘Family Structure as a Factor in the Adjustment of Adopted Children’

D. F. GODA

David Goda is working at Edinburgh University on the statistical analysis of social work data for Scotland. After lecturing in statistics at Aberdeen University, he was for over four years a statistician in the Social Work Services Group of the Scottish Education Department, where he was closely involved in the design and implementation of the ‘Martin’ system of social work statistics.

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Dr. Kraus's paper1 suggests that ‘a criterion of acceptability of childless applicants for adoption should be their childbearing potential’. This proposal, with its extremely serious implications for practice, is based on the results of a questionnaire survey of couples who had adopted babies seven years earlier. Failings in the statistical analysis, however, cast considerable doubt on the main finding.


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