Predictors of outcome for unrelated adoptive placements made during middle childhood
Researchers followed 99 children placed for unrelated adoption at ages 5–11 into adolescence. Social workers reported early histories and adopters were interviewed over time. Placements were classified as disrupted, continuing positively, or continuing with difficulties. Age, behaviour, care history, rejection and attachment-related measures were associated with disruption.
Limitations: Historical older-child placements and adult reports cannot represent infant or contemporary adoption generally. Statistical predictors do not prove causation; this is not a forecast for an individual child. Only the publisher-deposited abstract was reviewed; regional coverage and additional methods are not inferred where unstated. Related programme publications may use overlapping participants; these are separate publications, not independent replications. UK research context does not confirm an exclusively England/Wales sample.
- Research type
- Longitudinal cohort study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Domestic adoption / adoption from care
Programme: Rushton–Dance adoption from public care cohort
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 disruption, attachment, longitudinal, placement outcomes
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom research context (sample geography not specified in abstract)
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- Adoptee involvement
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