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Document Title: Connections Matter: Relationships With Birth Families Are Important For Foster And Adopted Children.
Personal Author: Riley, Debbie.
Abstract: This article explains reasons for the continued contact between children in foster care and adopted children and their birth parents, including providing children with ongoing knowledge of their origins, family history, and important information to help them chart the course of their identity formation; fostering children’s self-esteem by mitigating feelings of loss, rejection, self-blame, and abandonment; reassuring children of the well-being of their birth parents; and fostering sibling relationships. Key considerations when making decisions regarding continued contact are reviewed, and strategies are discussed for making the relationships work.
Document Title: Postadoption Contact Agreements Between Birth and Adoptive Families
Abstract: Presents State statutes on postadoption contact agreements, which are arrangements that allow contact between a child's adoptive family and members of the child's birth family. Topics covered include the contents of agreements; parties to agreements; the court's role; and enforcing, modifying, and terminating agreements.
Document Title: The Role of the Social Worker in Adoption – Ethics and Human Rights: An Enquiry.
Personal Author: Featherstone, Brid.,Gupta, Anna.,Mills, Sue.
Abstract: In 2016, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) commissioned an enquiry into the role of the social worker in adoption with a focus on ethics and human rights. The enquiry considered adoptions undertaken by local authorities across the four UK nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A total of 105 social workers, 56 birth family members, 44 adoptive parents, 32 adopted people, 15 legal personnel, 24 academics, 24 related professionals, and 13 organizations participated in the enquiry. Following an introduction, Section 1 focuses on the current use of adoption, drawing together responses from participants across the stakeholder groups. Section...more
Document Title: Pre-Adoption Adversities And Adoptees' Outcomes: The Protective Role Of Post-Adoption Variables In An Italian Experience Of Domestic Open Adoption.
Personal Author: Balenzano, Caterina.,Coppola, Gabrielle.,Cassibba, Rosalinda.,Moro, Giuseppe.
Abstract: Academics agree that pre-adoption adversities are determining factors in post-adoption adjustment. However, few studies have yet to explore the role of factors intervening in the adoption process and the interplay between the child and adoptive family variables. Specifically, little is known about how the impact of early adversities is moderated by post-adoption factors to produce specific outcomes.The present study concerning domestic adoption explored the adjustment of 37 adolescents and 22 emerging adults (with age ranging between 11 and 18 and 18 and 24?years, respectively), adopted through an Italian form of open adoption, and analyzed the quality of adoptive family relationships and...more
Document Title: Adoption in the Digital Age.
Personal Author: Samuels, Julie.
Abstract: This text explores what it means to be adopted in the digital age, how the Internet is impacting adoption and adopted children, reasons why individuals that have been adopted seek reunification despite the risk of rejection, and the need to consider proposals for more openness within adoption to manage contact between children who have been adopted and their biological families. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 discusses the use of the Internet in adoption fraud and the rehoming of children whose adoptions have broken down, and raises questions about the use of unregulated websites and the commodification of children that seek...more
Document Title: Identity Formation In Children And Young People In Open Adoptions From Out-Of-Home Care In New South Wales, Australia.
Personal Author: Luu, Betty.,de Rosnay, Marc.,Wright, Amy Conley.,Tregeagle, Susan.,
Abstract: Semi-structured interviews were used to explore identity development for nine adoptees (aged 9–23 years) who were adopted by their foster carers in New South Wales, Australia. Adoptions were open, with court-ordered face-to-face contact with birth families. Findings suggest that participants had healthy adoptive identities, with coherent and meaningful narratives about their life histories. Adoption provided a sense of security and belonging. Openness provided information to build a self-narrative and encouraged discussion of adoption issues within adoptive families. Adoptive parents were critical in helping children understand their adoption and facilitating direct contact with birth families, thus laying foundations for positive identity development....more
Document Title: Saving International Adoption: An Argument from the Perspective of Economics and Personal Experience.
Personal Author: Powell, Irene.,Montgomery, Mark.
Abstract: International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government officials, international bureaucrats, and social commentators claim these adoptions are not "in the best interests" of the child. They claim that adoption deprives children of their "birth culture," threatens their racial identities, and even encourages widespread child trafficking. Celebrity adopters are publicly excoriated for stealing children from their birth families. This...more
Document Title: Issues Surrounding Post-Adoption Contact in Foster Adoption: The Perspective of Foster-to-Adopt Families and Child Welfare Workers.
Personal Author: Chateauneuf, Doris.,Page, Genevieve.,Decaluwe, Beatrice.
Abstract: Current research on open adoption gives less consideration to issues surrounding post-adoption contact with birth parents for children adopted from care. Yet, it is widely recognized that the profile of the children and their birth parents, as well as the quality of post-adoption contacts, vary considerably depending on the context in which the adoption takes place. This article is based on interviews with 32 child welfare workers and 16 foster-to-adopt families. It focuses specifically on aspects and conditions that should be taken into consideration when determining whether or how contact between the adopted child and the birth family should be maintained....more
Document Title: The Adoption Of Children From Out-Of-Home Care: The Understandings Of Key Decision Makers In Victoria, Australia.
Personal Author: Butlinski, Anna.,Rowe, Heather.,Goddard, Christopher.,Freezer, Nicholas.
Abstract: Adoption is one of a range of options that can provide children in out-of-home care with permanency when they are unable to be reunified with their birth parents. This paper reports on how the adoption of children from out-of-home care is understood by professionals involved in making decisions about the permanent placement of children in out-of-home care in Victoria, Australia, where adoption is rarely used. Data were collected through a single, face-to-face semi-structured interview with 21 professionals; eight child welfare specialists, eight adoption and permanent care specialists and five judicial officers. The adoption of children from out-of-home care was primarily understood...more
Document Title: Full Adoption in England and Wales and France: A Comparative History of Law and Practice.
Personal Author: Mignot, Jean-François.
Abstract: Why do the British adopt far fewer children from abroad but more domestic children than the French? To examine this question, this article compares the history of adoption law and practice in France and England and Wales. Although these countries have had similar adoption laws since the 1920s, there have long been many more adoptions in England and Wales. This is partly due to the greater numbers of abused and neglected children being put forward for adoption in the UK. In addition, memories of the forced migration of children, coupled with heated debate over transracial adoption in the 1980s, cast doubt...more
Document Title: The ABA Consumer Guide to Adopting a Child: Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Adoption.
Personal Author: Kasky, Robert A.
Abstract: Intended for prospective adoptive parents, this guide explains the process of adoption, the risks involved, and strategies parents can use during the process. Chapters 1 and 2 review the basics of adoption and parties to the adoption. It is explained that the interests of the child come first during all adoption proceedings and reviews the risks faced by prospective adoption families in the adoption of a newborn. The motivations of birth parents are discussed, as well as their possible substance abuse and other difficulties. Chapter 3 discusses who may adopt and Chapter 4 describes the differences between open and closed adoptions....more
Document Title: Providing Permanence to Children and Their Parents: An Adoptive Family's Story
Abstract: Tells the story of Mason, a 3-year-old boy who was adopted by his foster family after his mother's relapse into drug addiction. But the story does not end there. Mason's foster/adoptive family was determined to include his birth mother in his life, so they supported her and helped her get clean. She remains involved, speaking on the phone to him almost daily, and she is a close friend to the family. Although Mason does not know her biological relationship to him, he calls his birth mother "Mama Kayla," and his adoptive family hopes they will always remain an extended family. This...more
Document Title: Contact with Birth Family in Adoptive Families Headed by Lesbian, Gay Male, and Heterosexual Parent.
Personal Author: Brodzinsky, David M.,Goldberg, Abbie E.
Abstract: In this study, we examined the extent and type of contact with birth family in adoptive families headed by sexual minority and heterosexual parents prior to or at the time of placement, following placement, and currently. Data were drawn from the Modern Adoptive Families project, a nationwide, non-random survey of adoptive parents' beliefs and experiences that was conducted from 2012 to 2013. The current sample consisted of 671 families headed by heterosexual parents, 111 families headed by lesbian parents, and 98 families headed by gay male parents whose oldest adopted child was less than 18 years old and who was placed...more
Document Title: Adoptees On Open Adoption: "I Have All My Pieces."
Abstract: Teens and young adults who grew up in fully open adoptions discuss their relationships with their adoptive and birth families and the many benefits openness has brought them. (Author abstract)
Document Title: Practice Guidelines Supporting Open Adoption in Families Headed by Lesbian and Gay Male Parents: Lessons Learned From the Modern Adoptive Families Study.
Personal Author: Brodzinsky, David.,Goldberg, Abbie.
Abstract: This report discusses the findings of the Modern Adoptive Families Study (MAF) that compared the extent of contact and pattern of contact dynamics with birth families for adoptive families headed by lesbian and gay male (LG) and heterosexual parents. Data were collected through an online survey of over 1,600 non-kinship adoptive parents. Findings indicate: families adopting from private agencies were significantly more likely to have contact with the birth family; no differences in contact were found for heterosexual and LG parents whose older child was adopted from the child welfare system or from a private domestic agency; gay men reported having...more
Document Title: Parenthood and Open Adoption: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
Personal Author: MacDonald, Mandi.
Abstract: This book explores what it is like to be involved in contemporary open adoption, characterized by varying forms of contact with the birth relatives. It presents the findings of a study that involved 31 adoptive parents, from 17 families, from all five Health and Social Trusts in Northern Ireland. All the participants had adopted unrelated children from care, most of the participants’ children had been placed in their adoptive families between 2000 and 2006, and the children had been adopted between 5 years and 11 years and ranged in age from 9 years to 14 years. Following an introduction, Chapter 2...more
Document Title: Openness in Adoption: Challenging the Narrative of Historical Progress.
Personal Author: Jones, Christine.
Abstract: One significant change in adoption practice that has occurred over the last four decades is the shift away from an expectation of confidentiality towards an expectation of openness in adoption. Openness is typically conceived in terms of the level of contact between adoptive and birth families following adoption or the extent to which adoption is openly discussed within the adoptive family. While these shifts in practice have generated controversy, they are largely supported by research evidence and have become a feature of contemporary adoptive family life. As a result, the narrative that has emerged in relation to openness in adoption is...more
Document Title: The Maintenance of Traditional and Technological Forms of Post-Adoption Contact.
Personal Author: Greenhow, Sarah.,Hackett, Simon.,Jones, Christine.,Meins, Elizabeth.
Abstract: Openness in adoption practice now often includes post-adoption contact with the adopted child's birth family. Traditionally, indirect and direct contact has been supported and mediated by professionals following the adoption of children from the public care system in the UK. However, more recently, the widespread growth in the use of digital technologies has made it possible for both adopted children and birth relatives to search and contact one another through the use of sites such as Facebook without professional support. This practice has been called ‘virtual contact’. Using data from interviews with 11 adoptive parents and six adopted young people, who...more
Document Title: Managing Shifting Expectations in Open Adoption Over Time.
Personal Author: Sink, Amy Hutton.
Abstract: This brief shares the experience of a birth mother participating in an open adoption and how and why her expectations have shifted. The need to set and keep realistic expectations is emphasized and key questions birth parents should ask are recommended. The questions address how often birth parents will be able to visit during the first year, visitation as the child gets older, and how a move on either side would affect the arrangement. The benefits of counseling are also discussed.
Document Title: Adoption (Chapter 8 in Critical Issues in Child Welfare, 2nd Ed.)
Abstract: This chapter focuses on adoption, and reviews the history of adoption, describes the framework of adoption and the different paths to adoption, discusses different types of adoption and protecting the adoption triad, explores the ethics of opening sealed records, and shares adoption outcomes. Nontraditional adoptive homes and the need for post-adoption services are also highlighted. 2 figures and numerous references.
Document Title: Open Adoption: A Reference Guide For Families.
Personal Author: Mantell, Joni.
Abstract: Openness brings great benefits to all involved, as well as some unique dilemmas. Addressing them requires flexibility, sensitivity to the birth family, and confidence in yourself as parents. Here's how to make it work for your family. (Author abstract)
Document Title: Preadoption Risks, Family Functioning, and Adoption Secrecy as Predictors of the Adjustment of Filipino Adopted Children.
Personal Author: Tarroja, Maria Caridad H.
Abstract: Using a correlational multivariate research design, partial least squares (PLS) was applied to examine the direct and indirect influence of pre-adoption risks, family functioning, and adoption secrecy on the adjustment (which is defined in this study as the internalizing and externalizing behaviors) of Filipino adopted children. Thirty-two sets of Filipino adoptees and their respective adoptive mothers participated in the study. Family functioning was found to predict the adjustment of Filipino adopted children while adoption secrecy predicted family functioning. Adopted children's perception of their family functioning and adoption openness buffer the impact of the early adversity experienced by the adopted children. Implications...more
Document Title: A Discussion Paper on Indigenous Custom Adoption. Part 1: Severed Connections - Historical Overview of Indigenous Adoption in Canada.
Personal Author: Di Tommaso, Lara.,De Finney, Sandrina.
Abstract: This paper forms Part 1 of a two-part discussion paper on Indigenous custom adoption. Zeroing in on the entangled histories of adoption and colonization, it outlines a short history of adoption in Canada, examines the impact of forced, closed, and external adoptions on Indigenous adoptees, and traces the move toward more open statutory adoptions and greater cultural connection and continuity in adoptions. This historical review sets the stage for Part 2 of our discussion paper, “Honouring Our Caretaking Traditions,” where we highlight the connections between customary laws regarding caregiving and the resurgence of Indigenous authority over child welfare within a context...more
Document Title: A Discussion Paper on Indigenous Custom Adoption. Part 2: Honouring Our Caretaking Traditions.
Abstract: This paper forms Part 2 of a two-part discussion paper. Part 1 outlined a short history of adoption in Canada, examined the impact of forced, closed, and external adoptions on Indigenous adoptees and families, and traced the move toward more open statutory adoptions and greater cultural continuity in adoptions. Having zeroed in on the entangled histories of adoption and colonization in Part 1, here we explore traditional and contemporary practices of Indigenous custom adoption and caretaking. We first recount Western understandings and impositions, then feature Indigenous perspectives that centre spiritual and ceremonial protocols, values regarding child well-being and community connectedness, and...more
Document Title: Lessons Learned From the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency Open Custom Adoption Program.
Personal Author: Carriere, Jeannine.
Abstract: Following a historic meeting of staff with Alberta Children's Services and the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) a pilot program, the YTSA Open Custom Adoption Program was developed. The agency initially researched existing adoption models in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia and the Cheyenne Nation in the United States. An advisory committee comprised of one Elder from each member First Nation community was struck to provide guidance and direction throughout the project. From 2000 to 2010 YTSA placed over a hundred children in adoptive homes and there were no adoption breakdowns (Aski Awasis Children of the Earth, p.79). Although the agency...more
Document Title: What’s Next for Adoption Advocates?
Personal Author: Johnson, Chuck.
Abstract: This brief explains that adoption is constantly evolving and that advocacy must too. It then reviews several issues that advocates should focus on, including: amending the Child Citizenship Act and close the loophole that leaves a small but still unacceptable number of intercountry adoptees vulnerable to citizenship problems and even deportation; preserving records for adoptees; helping adopted individuals understand their racial and cultural identities and preparing parents to adopt transracially; helping to mediate and provide guidance for facilitating open adoptions; ensuring that every prospective adoptive parent understands the forever commitment of adoption and educate , train, and support families with the...more
Document Title: Keeping An Adoption Open Despite Challenges.
Abstract: Five moms candidly reveal how they're honoring their commitment to openness when their child's birth parent struggles with substance abuse, mental illness, or is experiencing crisis. (Author abstract)
Document Title: Paying My Respects.
Abstract: Our son came to us from foster care, in a closed adoption. So how did I find myself walking through the doors of a dark funeral home, preparing to introduce myself to his other family? (Author abstract)
Document Title: Contested Attachments: Rethinking Adoptive Kinship in the Era of Open Adoption.
Personal Author: Sales, Sally.
Abstract: Since its legal inception in 1926, adoption work has been centrally concerned with the matter of the adopted child's ‘first’ or prior life, whilst also focussed on achieving a new and secure substitute family for that child. Adoptive kinship has been formed through this dual and contradictory concern, a concern that has produced diverse policies and practices over the last 90 years. Drawing on Foucault's concept of technologies of the subject, this paper is an exploration of adoptive kinship within the new context of open adoption, a set of practices that more actively promotes the involvements of the adopted child's former...more