The reasons why young children are placed for adoption: Findings from a recently placed sample and implications for future identity issues
Social-worker questionnaires described 168 recently adopted young children. Fourteen per cent were relinquished infants, 24% were adopted at parental request in complex circumstances, and 62% through social-services and court requirements. Backgrounds and openness arrangements differed between groups, raising different questions for later explanations of personal history.
Limitations: Historical sample and social-worker evidence, not children’s own accounts of identity. Placement categories and proportions do not describe current national adoption practice. Publications from this programme may use overlapping participants or data.
- Research type
- Social-worker questionnaire study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Domestic adoption
Programme: Contact After 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: adoption pathways, identity, origins, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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- Declared conflicts
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- Adoptee involvement
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