Adoptive family experiences of post-adoption contact in an Internet era
Semi-structured interviews with six adopted young people and eleven adoptive parents explored online contact with birth relatives. The analysis described both opportunities and difficulties in virtual contact, including the relevance of boundaries and differing interests.
Limitations: Small, selected qualitative accounts do not measure the prevalence or safety of online contact. Parent and young-person perspectives are combined in the abstract and must not be treated as exclusively adoptee testimony. Another contact paper uses the same sample. The 2015 online and 2017 issue versions are one publication.
- Research type
- Qualitative interview study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Greenhow digital post-adoption contact 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: adoptee voice, birth family relationships, contact, digital contact
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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