Curiosity and opportunities: The impact of accessing adoption information on adopted adults and the decision to search for birth relatives
This doctorate by publication brings together nine publications from three studies undertaken during 1997–2013. Participants were mostly adopted in England and Wales, including women adopted from Hong Kong. The synthesis examines how curiosity about origins and opportunities to obtain information and find relatives interact across adoptees’ lives.
Limitations: This synthesises earlier research rather than adding an independent participant sample. Several component papers are already recorded separately. Historical cohorts and changing records, social-media and DNA opportunities limit direct transfer to current adoptees.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Feast adoption information research synthesis
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: adoptee voice, identity, Records access, reunion, search
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England and Wales / Hong Kong-to-UK adoption
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- Adoptee involvement
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