Post-adoption contact and openness in adoptive parents' minds: consequences for children's development
The study examined post-adoption contact alongside adoptive parents' communicative openness and children's development. It considered how family communication about adoption and the presence or absence of contact with birth relatives related to children's adjustment.
Limitations: Much of the evidence about children and family processes came from adult reports, and associations between openness, contact and adjustment do not establish causation. Evidence-provider note: adoptive parents supplied some or all questionnaire/interview assessments of the adoptee’s outcomes. These proxy reports are not the adoptee’s own account; other evidence sources, where present, are described in the summary.
- Research type
- Longitudinal study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Adoption 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: adoptive family, birth family, children, communicative openness, contact, England, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England, UK
- 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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