Paved with Good Intentions: The Pathway to Adoption and the Costs of Delay
This study followed 130 older children for whom adoption had been recommended, including children who were never placed for adoption. It examined factors associated with reaching an adoptive placement and the costs of delays. The authors reported adverse associations between poor assessment or delayed planning and placement outcomes, alongside additional financial costs.
Limitations: Historical observational cohort; associations do not isolate the causal effects of delay. Outcomes concern reaching and maintaining placements, not necessarily adoptees’ own assessments of wellbeing. Overlaps with the Costs and Outcomes of Non-infant Adoptions programme.
- Research type
- Cohort / economic analysis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: children
Adoption context: Adoption from care / permanent family placement
Programme: Costs and Outcomes of Non-infant Adoptions
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 from care, adoption system
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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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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