Contact after Adoption: A longitudinal study of post adoption contact arrangements
A long-running UK study of adopted children, adoptive parents and birth relatives where post-adoption contact had been planned. The research followed children placed under age four from the preschool years through middle childhood and into later adolescence. It examined how different forms of contact were experienced, how contact affected children and adults, and how children's wishes and needs changed as they grew.
Limitations: The study concerns a particular cohort with planned post-adoption contact and should not automatically be generalised to all UK adoptions or all forms of contact.
- Research type
- Longitudinal study; book/report
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children; adolescents
Adoption context: Domestic adoption; children adopted from care
Programme: Contact After Adoption Study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified in the bibliographic material screened. This is not confirmation of institutional independence; affiliations, funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adolescence, adoptive family, birth family, contact, identity, longitudinal, open adoption, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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