Kids in Trouble (KIT) This program is designed to increase the adoption rates of children aged 2-6 in the United States.

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 The first article looks at giving a tax credit to persons who adopt children or foster children. The tax credit is under the Internal Revenue Code, and is available to those who provide for children as long as the children maintain a certain relationship to the taxpayer. The tax credit looks at helping the expenses of adopting children or fostering them, and demonstrates how a house with a child under age 13 may claim a tax exemption to help pay for part of these expenses. Logical Approach Literature Review

 The second article looks at how adoption is framed in the media and press. It states that adoption is part of media decision making, and media frames on international adoption are usually negative. Variations do exist depending on how a country is profiled. For example, adoption from Russia includes more negative frames while adoption from China is framed more positively. The differences demonstrate that people are not as well educated on adoption and the media is a major influence in adoption rates. Logical Approach Literature Review

 The third article looks at the factors that determine if people are open or opposed to inter-country adoption. It includes political empowerment of women and restrictiveness to the family home. Results find that where there are large populations of children needing to be adopted there is a greater openness to the adoption of children overall. Logical Approach Literature Review

 Breuning, Marijke "What Explains Openness to Intercountry Adoption? what Explains Openness to Intercountry Adoption?" Social Science Quarterly (Wiley- Blackwell) 94(1):  Jacobson, Heather "Framing Adoption: The Media and Parental Decision Making." Journal of Family Issues 35(5):  Kasper, Larry J "Tax Considerations for Adopted Children and Foster Children." Child Welfare 72(2): Logical Approach Works Cited

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