Whatever happened to baby Mei? A phenomenological study of adoption appraisal in midlife
Face-to-face interviews with 68 Chinese women in their forties and fifties examined how they understood adoption in midlife. They had been adopted from Hong Kong orphanages into UK families in the 1960s. Phenomenological analysis described changing appraisals of adoption, losses and gains, individual meanings and communication about adoption within and beyond families.
Limitations: The sample comprises women from one historical intercountry pathway and does not represent all adoptees or older adults. Accounts are retrospective and cross-sectional. Participants overlap with the British Chinese Adoption Study. The repository identifies the author as M. Grant; no unverified full name is supplied.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
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- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: British Chinese Adoption Study
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, adult outcomes, identity, intercountry adoption
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Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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