After Adoption
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After Adoption

Direct Contact and Relationships

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After Adoption

Direct Contact and Relationships

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About This Book

Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care. Such children have often experienced neglect, and sometimes abuse, and have frequently been adopted without parental agreement.
Based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, After Adoption considers the impact of direct post-adoption contact on all concerned in such cases. It also:
· discusses the development of adoption policy and law, particularly with regard to the legal and social consequences
· reviews the research evidence on adopted children's contact with their birth families
· explores through interviews: participants' feelings about adoption and direct contact; their relationships with each other; what hinders and what helps.
After Adoption challenges readers to re-think the relationship between adoption and the possibility of direct post-adoption contact and at the same time provides a comprehensive understanding of adoption issues. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on adoption, making a substantial contribution to policy and practice.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781135260699
Edition
1
Topic
Medicina
Subtopic
Teoría, práctica y referencia médicas

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. Adoption in Context: Social Change and Openness
  8. 2. Openness in Adoption: Essential for Children’s Well-being?
  9. 3. Policy, Law and Openness in Adoption
  10. 4. The Study: Research Issues, Methods and Sample Characteristics
  11. 5. Preparation and Planning for Direct Contact
  12. 6. Adoptive Parents: Perspectives on Adoption and Direct Contact
  13. 7. Birth Relatives and Direct Contact
  14. 8. Children’s Thoughts and Feelings: Adoption and Post-Adoption Contact
  15. 9. Views from the Triangles
  16. 10. Direct Post-Adoption Contact: Benefits, Risks and Uncertainties
  17. References
  18. Index