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A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study on Adoption

Santosh Kumari, Poonam Sheoran, Amandeep Kaur

Abstract


Child has always been regarded as the father of man. Worldwide infertility rate was found to be 8%-12% with the approximate rate of 10% in India. About 20 million children are orphan in India even then the adoption rates are falling. Hence, the objectives of current study were to assess and compare the knowledge and opinion score regarding adoption among adults of different age groups residing in rural and urban area. A descriptive cross-sectional comparative survey design was used. 400 adults of rural (200) and urban (200) area were selected by using quota sampling technique. Findings of the study indicated that majority of adults in rural area (86%) as well as in urban area (75.5%) were having below average knowledge regarding adoption. Majority (92.5%) of adults in rural area and in urban area (90.5%) were having favorable opinion regarding adoption.

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