post‐adoption contactvirtual contactIn the UK, post-adoption contact between adoptive and birth families traditionally includes letterbox and/or face-to-face methods of communication. Because of the emphasis in the UK of adoption from the public care system, post-adoption contact is often supported...
Bridging the divide: openness in adoption and postadoption psychosocial adjustment among birth and adoptive parents. Using 323 matched parties of birth mothers and adoptive parents, this study examined the association between the degree of adoption openness (e.g., contact......
There is currently little published empirical research addressing this practice issue within adoption. This study explores the impact of communicative technologies on the practice and experience of openness in adoptive families today. An online survey of 101 adoptive parents was conducted, followed by ...
(2002) Adoptive parenthood as a `legal fiction' - it's consequences for direct post-adoption contact. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 281 (3), 1-21.Smith, Carole, and Janette Logan, Adoptive Parenthood as a Legal Fiction - Its Consequences for Direct Post-Adoption Contact, 14 CHILD AND ...
needed his adoptive mom to help fill in the gaps in a portion of his life story more. So she joined a conference call with her son and a sportswriter last week, because if Bryan’s goal is to bring “major awareness” to the fostering and adoption process, then there is no one more...
It became a vicious cycle from ‘abused children’ (under British rule) to ‘abusive parents’ (under apartheid) that is never broken, because there has been no healing for the unprocessed trauma.’131 Blake and Opperman Lewis are effectively extending an old National Party argument, the idea...
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Whenchoosing adoptive parentsfor my son, it was important to me to find people that I could carry on a conversation with, who I shared similar interests with, and who wouldn’t consider me a “burden” to share an open adoption with. I was lucky to find all that and more. There was...
Some travelled by train to Pretoria, and are welcomed by the Kappiekommando – a woman’s brigade strictly of ‘Boer’ heritage (known for wearing the traditional Dutch ‘kappie’ head-dress). Most of the adoptive parents were well to do Afrikaner nationalists who had served in the higher ...
Sites also could "learn" child preferences over time to provide automated guidance to parents. For example, if a parent shares a photo of a teen and her boyfriend that was considered embarrassing, the system might prompt the parent to reconsider or ask permission before sharing another photo of...