Contact between Children Placed Away from Home and their Birth Parents: Research Issues and Evidence
This review examined research on contact between children living away from their birth parents and their families. The authors identified weaknesses in study design and analysis that, in their assessment, limited conclusions about either beneficial or adverse effects of contact.
Limitations: This is a review of evidence available in 1997, not an assessment of the present evidence base. Adoption and other care settings are considered together. The abstract does not describe a reproducible systematic search. Findings from individual studies and subgroups were not independently checked.
- 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: birth family relationships, contact, 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
- Funding
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- Commissioner
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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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