Many Faces of Openness in Adoption: Perspectives of Adopted Adolescents and Their Parents
Interviews with 177 adoptive families found openness arrangements were dynamic. Adolescents and adoptive mothers with face-to-face contact reported the greatest satisfaction, while no-contact or stopped-contact groups reported the least; many participants wanted contact to increase rather than decrease.
Limitations: Same-race domestic infant-adoption cohort; findings do not transfer automatically to care adoption.
- Research type
- Longitudinal interviews
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents
Adoption context: Domestic infant 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: adolescents, birth family, contact, longitudinal, openness, United States
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United States
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- Adoptee involvement
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