The proportion of adoptees who have received their birth records in England and Wales
The study estimated how many adult adoptees obtained original birth records after the 1975 legal change, analysing patterns by birth year and access year. More than 70,000 out-of-family adoptees had received records by the period studied.
Limitations: Measures receipt rather than experience or meaning of access; historical period.
- Research type
- Administrative trend analysis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Domestic adoption
Programme: Not recorded
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: adult adoptees, England and Wales, original birth certificate, origins, records, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England and Wales
- 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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