Historic forced adoption - scoping study: final report
The study included interviews with 37 people affected by historic forced adoption, including 19 adoptees, alongside stakeholders and local-authority survey responses.
Limitations: Small, self-selecting qualitative sample. Government or public-body commissioned/published research concerning adoption, care or education systems. Readers may take the commissioning/publication relationship and the body’s role in those systems into account.
- Research type
- Qualitative interviews; survey; review
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults / Older adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults; older adults
Adoption context: Historic forced adoption
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research
Government or public-body commissioned/published research concerning adoption, care or education systems. Readers may take the commissioning/publication relationship and the body’s role in those systems into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adult adoptees, historic forced adoption, records, reunion, Scotland, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: Scotland
- 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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