Adoption Breakdown: Concept, Research, and Implications
This review draws together journal papers, chapters and reports about adoption breakdown, including UK research. It examines inconsistent terminology and methods, reported breakdown rates, and child, family and service characteristics associated with breakdown.
Limitations: This synthesises existing studies rather than adding a new participant cohort. Different countries, definitions and follow-up periods constrain comparisons; no pooled rate is inferred here. The abstract does not describe a reproducible systematic search. UK source coverage was checked in the full-text references, but detailed findings were not independently reanalysed.
- Research type
- Research literature review
- 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: Not recorded
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, adoption system, post-adoption support, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: International review including United Kingdom
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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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