To be able to adopt, the future adoptive parents must participate in parental education and have a home investigation done. The home investigation is extensive and great demands are made on the parents. The purpose with this study was to get an insight and understanding in the parents? thoughts and feelings about the demands and expectations that are made on them during an international Adoption. To answer this, we used these questions: Which demands and expectations are made on the future adoptive parents by the home investigator and the parental educator? How do the future adoptive parents experience the demands and expectations that are made on them before an Adoption? Does the apprehension about the demands and expectations differ between the future adoptive parents and the home investigator contrary the parental educator? We used a qualitative method, interviewing four couples of parents, one home investigator and one parental educator.

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur män som lever i en samkönad relation och som ansökt om Adoption upplevde Adoptionsprocessen, samt hur deras längtan efter barn såg ut.Metod: Utifrån en kvalitativ analysmetod och en abduktiv strategi för att nå kunskap, genomfördes studien med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer. Vi har använt oss av en halvstrukturerad intervjuguide och intervjuat fem homosexuella män som ansökt om Adoption. Deras deltagande gav detaljerade beskrivningar av upplevelserna och erfarenheterna kring Adoptionsprocessen, vilka vi senare kategoriserade i huvud- och underteman. Resultatet analyserades utifrån valda teoretiska perspektiv och tidigare forskning, som vi ansåg relevanta för det studerade fenomenet.Huvudresultat: Längtan efter barn hade alltid funnits hos informanterna. Många olika familjebildningsformer hade diskuterats, men centralt var att alla ville ha sitt eget barn på heltid, vilket medförde att Adoption blev det överordnade alternativet.

SammanfattningVi har gjort en kritisk diskursanalys av AC:s (Adoptionscentrum) medlemstidning under perioderna; 1975-1985, 1986-1996, 1997-2006. Frågeställningen lyder: Hur konstitueras diskursen om ?det goda adoptivföräldraskapet? genom AC:s medlemstidning? Vilka är möjlighetsvillkoren och vilka konsekvenser innebär diskursen? Vårt syfte har varit att förstå diskursen om ?det goda adoptivföräldraskapet?. Vi har utgått ifrån socialkonstruktioniskt, poststrukturalistiskt perspektiv och språkfilosofi.Vårt huvudsakliga resultat har visat sig vara att AC konstituerar diskurser som producerar och reproducerar ett antal normativa föreställningar om föräldraskap, familj och individer som bygger på socialt konstruerade föreställningar om vad som är en ?riktig? familj, bra föräldraegenskaper och barnets bästa.

Miljön har kommit allt mer i fokus de senaste åren och en bransch som är särskilt viktig är bilbranschen vilken påverkar miljön i stor utsträckning. Exempelvis den svenska regeringen har framfört en önskan om att vara helt oberoende av olja år 2020 och detta är något som uppenbarligen skulle påverka bilbranschen och tydliggör behövet av miljövänliga fordon. Dessa så kallade miljöfordon lanserades i större omfattning redan på 1990-talet men har ännu inte nått kommersiell framgång. Anledningen till detta har sannolikt att göra med olika faktorer förknippade med produkten vilka påverkar konsumenters Adoption negativt. Med Adoption menas den process i fem steg av Rogers (1995) som förklarar hur en konsument blir först medveten om en produkt och fram tills det att personen ifråga blir en regelbunden användare.

Previous studies have shown that there exists a gap between purchase intention and behavior in consumption situations. This gap is especially prevalent for sustainable or green products and even more so in terms of sustainable apparel consumption. Therefore, the Adoption of sustainable fashion remains low as fast fashion dominates the industry. A counter-movement for mass consumption - access-based consumption - has reached the apparel industry and in Sweden we see it in the form of clothing libraries. This qualitative thesis uses in-depth interviews to uncover the feelings of seven consumers towards the idea of accessing rather than owning their clothing as a more sustainable consumption form, factoring in the strong identity connection that we have to our clothes and how this affects their perceptions.

AbstractThe aim of this essay is to bring understanding to one of the problems theinternationally adopted in Sweden might face, the identity dilemma. In order to do so, a theory of identity construction, Constructionism, is used. This theory says that the construction of identities is a constantly continuing process, influenced, not only by our own perception of ourselves, but also by how we are viewed and treated by otherpeople.Given this theoretic starting point, an examination of the adoptees? everydayencounters in the Swedish society is made, using an autobiography, a biography, a collection of interviews, and newspaper articles. The result shows that the internationally adopted, although they are Swedish both by mind and by law, experience that they have been, and sometimes still are, confronted with strong attitudes such as racism, prejudice and stereotypes.Furthermore, those who experience the identity dilemma often refer to how they are perceived by ?the others?, or to what the encounters with ? the real? Swedes have been like.

The Chinese government´s aim to be self-sufficient in food production in combination with the increased food consumption in China has put high pressure on the productivity within the Chinese agricultural sector (He j et al, 2010). In order to increase the productivity, modernization and Adoption of new farming techniques are essential. The opportunity to adopt and import foreign technology has lately been possible in China, as more authority and decision rights have been given to the individual farmers and the country has opened up for foreign trade (Zheng, 2012 & Fan, 1991). A more open Chinese market enables new opportunities for foreign agricultural companies to expand their businesses by introducing their products to Chinese farmers. But to succeed with this strategy the Chinese farmers must be willing to adopt these, for them new innovations. Minimum tillage is a tillage practice used worldwide that is suitable in northern China where drought and erosion are the main problems in the crop production (pers.com., Arvidsson, 2012). Potential users? opinion of new innovations such as minimum tillage is closely related to Adoption (Rogers, 2003).

Standing outside the EU and the EES, Switzerland is a unique state characterized by federalism, direct democracy and neutrality. Though always focused on preserving these features and its sovereignty, Switzerland has managed to gain access to some sectors of the single market through bilateral agreements with the EU. The purpose of this thesis is to examine what level of integration Switzerland has reached in those bilaterally regulated sectors of the single market. As integration cannot easily be assessed, the extent of the Swiss Adoption of the acquis is seen as an indicator of the level of integration and is thus examined. The conclusion is that Switzerland, mostly due to the economic interest of common rules, but partly due to pressure from the EU, almost completely adopts the acquis in the bilaterally regulated sectors, including the interpretation of the ECJ.

This retrospective study aimed to examine differences at age fivebetween twenty-six internationally adopted and twenty-six Swedish-bornchildren with cleft lip and palate regarding age of surgery, speech andintervention. Correlation between age of surgery and speechvariables andgender differences was examined. Blind assessment of audio recordedsentence repetition or naming of words was performed by two speechpathologists. Soft palate was closed significantly later for the study groupthan the control group. Age at closure of hard palate did not differ.

This study in political science examines the UN adopted resolution 1970 (2011) andresolution 1973 (2011) on the basis of foreign policy decision-making. The study aims toexplain how the UN principle of Responsibility to Protect came to be legitimized for the firsttime by the UN Security Council in the Libya conflict in 2011. By a poliheuristic perspectivethe study attempt to explain Russia and China?s acting in the voting of resolution 1970 andresolution 1973. The background to the conflict in Libya 2011 is presented in the study aswell as the Security Council?s actions during the conflict, from the beginning of the conflictuntil the Adoption of resolution 1973.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilken syn några företrädare för Svenska Kyrkan har på homosexualitet. Uppsatsen behandlar följande områden inom frågan om homosexualitet: Intervjupersonernas inställning till homosexualitet, Det bör finnas plats för flera åsikter inom kyrkan, En bibeltolkningsfråga, Homosexualitet är inte naturligt, Registrerat partnerskap, Partnerskap är inte ett äktenskap, Intervjupersonernas inställning till homosexuellas rätt att ansöka om Adoption, Har alla rätt till allt?, Konsekvenser i verkligheten, Inga problem med homosexuella präster, Konflikt att vara kristen och homosexuell?, Frågan om homosexualitet är ett problem inom kyrkan. Diskussion och slutsatser kring dessa kategorier återges under varje kategori. Det breda spektra av åsikter inom området som min undersökning givit, speglar, med största sannolikhet, desamma som finns bland övriga företrädare för Svenska Kyrkan, dock bara en bråkdel av dem..

 Becoming an adoptive parent is not always easy. There are positive and negative factors affecting the parent?s experience. The aim of this study is to examine being an adoptive parent to an internationally adopted child based on association, parenthood and ethnic belonging. Frame of interpretation consists of attachment and separations, parenthood and family and ethnic origin and belonging.

Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: I samband med att nya administrativa innovationer introducerats har intressetför hur innovationerna sprids och vad det är som motiverar organisationer till att adoptera innovationerna ökat. Fokus har dock endast varit att besvara vad det är som påverkar organisationers Adoptionsbenägenhet, men inte hur och med vilka beslutsunderlag organisationer avgör vilka egenskaper hos innovationen som är avgörande för beslut om Adoption. Med ovanstående redogörelse som bakgrund ämnar denna uppsats att svara på följande problemformulering;- Hurutvärderas ekonomistyrningsinnovationers egenskaper vid beslut om Adoption?Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka kunskapen om vad som driver förändring i organisationers ekonomistyrning. Med fokus på ekonomistyrningsmodellers egenskaper ämnar författarna att öka förståelsen för förändringars drivkrafter i fallet med ekonomistyrningsmodeller.

The aim of this study is to widen our knowledge about the basic idea about having an open preschool for adopted children as understood by parents of adopted children and a preschool teacher. Sweden has a large number of international Adoptions, in an international comparison among the highest numbers of Adoptions per capita. Interviews were carried out with seven adoptive parents and one preschool teacher teaching at a special preschool for adopted children. It was found that adoptive parents had no particular problems with placing their children in an "ordinary" preschool. However, they choose to place the children in an open preschool solely for adopted children because of the possibility of sharing similar experiences as parents and children as well.

AbstractDuring the last decade the public sector has been influenced by new ways of measuring performance and governing, taking inspiration from the private sector. The Swedish municipal community Vellinge has since 2004 adopted ?The Balanced Scorecard? by Kaplan & Norton, measuring not only the financial parts but also other, important factors. The Adoption took place since the Swedish government applied new demands on county councils and municipal communities through ?God ekonomisk hushållning?.