Further analysis of the British Chinese Adoption Study (BCAS): Adult life events and experiences after international adoption
Questionnaires and interviews with 68 women in their forties and early fifties examined adult lives after adoption from Hong Kong orphanages into UK families during the 1960s. Most described broadly stable, supported lives with difficult periods. Unhappiness about adoption and partnership adversity after age 25 were associated with poorer midlife functioning. Childhood experiences were not associated with patterns of adult adversity.
Limitations: Historical, women-only cohort from one adoption pathway. Associations cannot establish causation. Findings do not describe all internationally adopted adults. This analysis uses the same cohort as other British Chinese Adoption Study publications, rather than an independent replication. The underlying British Chinese Adoption Study was carried out by BAAF with academic collaborators and Nuffield Foundation funding. Readers may take this adoption-sector research relationship into account.
- Research type
- Mixed-methods adult follow-up
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Intercountry / transracial adoption
Programme: British Chinese Adoption Study
Institutional context: Adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation
The underlying British Chinese Adoption Study was carried out by BAAF with academic collaborators and Nuffield Foundation funding. Readers may take this adoption-sector research relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, adult outcomes, intercountry adoption, mental health, Relationships, transracial adoption
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: UK; women adopted from Hong Kong
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