Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-02-15DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2021.1884156
Hilina Winkenweder, Clemence Due, Peter Strelan
{"title":"Ethiopian Adoptees’ Experiences of Attachment after Adoption in Australia: A Qualitative Study","authors":"Hilina Winkenweder, Clemence Due, Peter Strelan","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2021.1884156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2021.1884156","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates how Ethiopian adoptees and adoptive parents in Australia experience attachment to each other post-adoption. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Ethiopian adoptees and eight adoptive parents. Thematic analysis returned four themes, indicating that attachment experiences were affected by the following: age at adoption; separation anxiety and survival mechanisms; biological family access; and identity formation. The findings contribute to improved understanding of Ethiopian adoptees’ attachment experiences in Australia, and highlight unmet needs surrounding post-adoption support, in particular, support relating to post-adoption attachment.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2021.1884156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59777547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-02-13DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2021.1884157
S. Steenrod
{"title":"The Legacy of Exploitation in Intercountry Adoptions from Ethiopia: “We Were under the Impression That Her Birth Parents Had Died”","authors":"S. Steenrod","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2021.1884157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2021.1884157","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ethiopia legally banned intercountry adoption in 2018 following reports of corruption, illegal practices, and child trafficking. While the intercountry adoption program is now closed, the enduring legacy of exploitation continues. Through interviews with adoptive parents, this study explores what and how adoption-related exploitation occurred. It also describes a cyclical and iterative process that adoptive parents, impacted by adoption-related exploitation, undertook to understand whether and how referral, concerning, and emergent adoption narratives fit together.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2021.1884157","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42417604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1830326
Bibiana D. Koh, Jaeran Kim
{"title":"Examining the Intersection of Ethics and Adoption","authors":"Bibiana D. Koh, Jaeran Kim","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1830326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1830326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1830326","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44887363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1833391
T. May, S. Fullerton
{"title":"Ethical Considerations in the Use of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing for Adopted Persons","authors":"T. May, S. Fullerton","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1833391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1833391","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The use of DTC genetic testing to identify health risks is increasingly popular. This is particularly the case for adopted persons, who often lack access to family health history information and who may see genetic testing as the best (and only) way to identify potential inherited disease risks. However, the development of genetic testing to fill gaps in family health history information for adopted persons has been hindered by several challenges including ethical concerns surrounding appropriate uses of biotechnology and its application to medicine and public health. Here, we will approach these concerns in the context of the “Four Principles Approach” articulated by Beauchamp and Childress. Through this approach, it is our aim to illustrate the need for careful consideration of often neglected risks and benefits before adoptees make the decision to engage genetic testing.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1833391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45206420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1837315
Jing Wang, Misaki N Natsuaki, Jenae M Neiderhiser, Daniel S Shaw, Jody Ganiban, David Reiss, Leslie D Leve
{"title":"Fertility Problems and Parenting Daily Hassles in Childhood: A 7-year Longitudinal Study of Adoptive Parents.","authors":"Jing Wang, Misaki N Natsuaki, Jenae M Neiderhiser, Daniel S Shaw, Jody Ganiban, David Reiss, Leslie D Leve","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1837315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1837315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fertility problems are known to exert a negative impact on psychological health. Meanwhile, individuals with fertility challenges often view adoption as a positive healing experience. Yet, a dearth of work has examined the long-term impact that fertility problems have on adoptive parents and their childrearing stress. Here, we investigated how fertility problems related to parenting daily hassle (PDH) trajectories among adoptive mothers and fathers in the Early Growth and Development Study (<i>N</i> = 333). When adopted children were 9 months old, adoptive parents reported whether they had fertility problems prior to their decision to adopt and rated their PDH frequency and intensity on six occasions over the next 7 years. Multilevel models revealed inverse U-shaped curves for PDH among both fertile and infertile parents, such that PDH increased from child age 9 months until about 5 to 6 years and decreased thereafter. Mothers with fertility problems exhibited a steeper PDH incline from 9 months to the peak at child age 5 to 6, but also incurred a swifter subsequent decline. There were no significant differences in fathers' PDH trajectories based on fertility problems. We discuss why fertility problems appear to impact PDH trajectories for mothers rather than fathers.</p>","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1837315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10856672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1834041
Malinda L. Seymore
{"title":"Ethical Lawyering in Adoption: Centering the Child in Adoption Law","authors":"Malinda L. Seymore","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1834041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Legal scholars have engaged in robust discussions of ethics in adoption law, but have paid little attention to the lawyering role in adoption. This article seeks to fill this gap by reviewing the disconnect between ethical obligations as conceived by lawyers’ rules of professional responsibility and societal norms of ethics; and proposes an ethic of care for lawyers that centers the interests of the child. This article draws on Tronto’s four phases of care, and argues that centering the needs of children for continuing relationships leads to ethical adoption lawyering.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44747798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1834040
F. Reamer, Deborah H. Siegel
{"title":"Adoption Ethics in a Digital World: Challenges and Best Practices1","authors":"F. Reamer, Deborah H. Siegel","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1834040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article discusses the range of ethical issues that today’s explosion of information and communications technology (ICT) has brought to the adoption landscape. It draws on recently adopted technology-related ethics standards and practice standards pertaining to human service professionals’ use of technology to deliver services and communicate with clients, both of which are highly relevant and useful in helping adoption professionals create guidelines for managing the ethical, policy, and practice challenges and conundrums created by the rise and expansion of digital technology in adoption. The discussion concludes with specific practice and policy guidelines that adoption professionals and people whose lives are touched by adoption should follow in order to protect privacy and confidentiality, maintain clear boundaries, and promote autonomy and self-determination in adoption.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49306965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1833394
M. Dalen, K. Nordahl, Kristin Vonheim, H. Janson, A. Nærde
{"title":"Mother–Child Interaction in Families With Internationally Adopted Children and Families With Biological Children at Age 2: Similarities and Differences","authors":"M. Dalen, K. Nordahl, Kristin Vonheim, H. Janson, A. Nærde","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1833394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1833394","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Videotaped observations of mother–child interactions in adoptive and biological dyads showed some significant differences in overall quality of interactions at age 2. The differences included both mother and child observed behavior during a free-play and teaching setting. There were no significant differences in adoptive and biological mother’s sensitivity/responsiveness toward their children, which has been documented to be important for children’s favorable social and emotional development. Taking into consideration the late establishment of mother–child interaction in adoptive families and the children’s adverse preadoption experiences, this result must be considered quite propitious. However, there were significant differences in both mother’s and children’s behavior. Adoptive mothers expressed less positive regard for their children in both settings and displayed more intrusive behavior in the free-play setting compared to biological mothers. Furthermore, adopted children showed less positive mood and engagement of their mothers in both settings and lower degree of sustained attention in the teaching setting than the biological children. Notably, the children’s age at adoption was not connected to either mothers’ or children’s observed behavior during the interaction tasks.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1833394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48992482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adoption QuarterlyPub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1834043
M. Henriques, Isabel Fidalgo, D. Teixeira, Margarida Domingues, Sara Silva
{"title":"Child Preparation for Adoption as an Ethical Requirement during Pre-Placement: The PPCA","authors":"M. Henriques, Isabel Fidalgo, D. Teixeira, Margarida Domingues, Sara Silva","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1834043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Child adoption is a highly demanding process for all those involved, including the child, parents, and professionals. Support is needed to maximize the chances of adequate preparation, focusing on not just the parents’ preparedness but also the child’s preparation for adoption. Preparing a child for adoption is an ethical obligation. Assuming that the child is at the center of the adoption process, this paper highlights the importance of acknowledging the child’s specific needs and giving them adequate opportunity to develop into a fully engaged agent throughout the process. This article focuses on the Program for Preparing Children for Adoption (PPCA), a specific manual intervention designed to help professionals prepare children for adoption. The program is based on theoretical concepts of the psychology of adoption, the bioecological development perspective and a narrative psychology approach. First, the PPCA’s theoretical background is presented, followed by each one of its core aspects and specific activities. The article concludes with a summary of this program’s major contributions to child preparation as well as recommendations for future research and practice.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42940135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adoption by Lesbian Women and Gay Men: Perceived Challenges and Training Needs for Professionals in Portugal","authors":"Jorge Gato, Margarida Rangel Henriques, Daniela Leal","doi":"10.1080/10926755.2020.1834044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Lesbian women and gay men face many barriers to accomplish a parental project, including when seeking to adopt. In Portugal, same-sex couple’s adoption was recently allowed and we sought to understand adoption professionals’ perspectives regarding this issue. We conducted two focus groups with adoption professionals using a semi-structured interview script. We aimed to explore (i) the main challenges for adoption by LGs and same-sex couples; (ii) knowledge, skills, and personal beliefs regarding about these family settings; (iii) the importance of gender (couples, child) in the matching process; and (iv) topics to address in any training for this area. The participants’ discourses oscillated between a certain awareness of the prevailing social prejudice and discrimination toward sexual minorities on one hand and a heteronormative discourse on the other hand. Challenges in working with this population and training necessities were identified. Findings point to the need for guidelines for the home study of LG applicants and cultural competency training to deal with this population in three aspects: knowledge, skills, and awareness of personal attitudes.","PeriodicalId":45383,"journal":{"name":"Adoption Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10926755.2020.1834044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43746487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}