Adoption Barometer 2026: adult adoptees
The survey included 451 adult adoptees and covered records, tracing and reunion, mental-health and therapeutic support, and peer support.
Limitations: Voluntary charity survey; respondents are self-selected. This voluntary survey was produced by Adoption UK, an adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation. Readers may wish to take that institutional position into account when interpreting the findings.
- Research type
- National adoptee survey
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Mixed
Programme: Adoption Barometer (annual surveys)
Institutional context: Adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation
This voluntary survey was produced by Adoption UK, an adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation. Readers may wish to take that institutional position into account when interpreting the findings.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adult adoptees, mental health, peer support, records, reunion, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
- Funding
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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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