An auto-ethnographic account of interactional practices in adoptive family relationships.
An adoptee researcher used autoethnography to examine kinship and interactions with birth relatives and her adult adopted children. Accounts from ten women described as adoptees or adoptive mothers also informed the work. The thesis explores how relationships, gendered experiences and sensory memories shape negotiated and changing family identities across adulthood.
Limitations: The researcher’s own adoptee perspective is central; the additional women should not all be assumed to be adoptees. Autoethnographic interpretation is not a population estimate. Participant regions are not specified in the abstract. The degree was awarded in 2018; the repository publication date is 2019.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, identity, parenthood, Relationships
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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