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Annual Review of Psychology 2014Children join adoptive families through domestic adoption from the public child welfare system, infant adoption through private agencies, and international adoption.... (Review)
Review
Children join adoptive families through domestic adoption from the public child welfare system, infant adoption through private agencies, and international adoption. Each pathway presents distinctive developmental opportunities and challenges. Adopted children are at higher risk than the general population for problems with adaptation, especially externalizing, internalizing, and attention problems. This review moves beyond the field's emphasis on adoptee-nonadoptee differences to highlight biological and social processes that affect adaptation of adoptees across time. The experience of stress, whether prenatal, postnatal/preadoption, or during the adoption transition, can have significant impacts on the developing neuroendocrine system. These effects can contribute to problems with physical growth, brain development, and sleep, activating cascading effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Family processes involving contact between adoptive and birth family members, co-parenting in gay and lesbian adoptive families, and racial socialization in transracially adoptive families affect social development of adopted children into adulthood.
Topics: Adoption; Child; Child Development; Cognition; Family; Humans; Parenting
PubMed: 24016275
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115020 -
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 2023Single parent adoption (SPA) is a relatively new construct worldwide and in India. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, has laid down... (Review)
Review
Single parent adoption (SPA) is a relatively new construct worldwide and in India. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, has laid down criteria for adoption in general and SPA in particular, in conjunction with the Juvenile Justice Act (Care and Protection of Children), 2015. There is scant literature on this topic of SPA, more so in India, that looks into the various psychological nuances of SPA from a mental health professional's (MHP) perspective. This review paper aims to assess SPA from the perspective of a MHP that will focus on its various legal nuances as well as the psychological connotations attached to it. For this, a search strategy was employed that included a thorough literature search from two databases (PubMed and Google Scholar) with relevant keywords related to the topic. The various legal issues pertaining to SPA in the current scenario, the psychological issues and challenges faced by single parents, the behavioral outcomes of adoptees who are adopted by single parents, and ways to deal with the various obstacles of SPA are discussed.
Topics: Child; Humans; Female; Mental Health; Single Parent; Adoption; India
PubMed: 37357486
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Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent... Aug 2004
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Academic Radiology Mar 2005
Topics: Adoption; Humans
PubMed: 15766702
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British Medical Journal Mar 1958
Topics: Adoption
PubMed: 13510718
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British Medical Journal May 1953
Topics: Adoption
PubMed: 13042174
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Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Oct 2019Adoption involves strong emotions. From the adoptee's point of view, adoption means not only the gain of a new family but also inevitable losses. This study aims at...
Adoption involves strong emotions. From the adoptee's point of view, adoption means not only the gain of a new family but also inevitable losses. This study aims at analyzing adoption-related feelings, which include the feelings of loss and the ensuing curiosity about the birth family and pre-adoption life. A total of 81 adopted adolescents, aged 12-22, adopted at 4 years of age, on average, participated in this study. The data were collected using the Questionnaire of Adoption-related Feelings and the Adopted Adolescents Interview, which allowed for the identification of the experiences, feelings, and attitudes of the adopted adolescents regarding their story before and after adoption, and their feelings towards their birth family. The results showed that most participants did not identify adoption-related losses. Nevertheless, they acknowledged the existence of some aspects of their adoption story that made them feel sad and angry and could identify several difficulties associated with their adoptive status. Participants showed low levels of curiosity even if they were mostly curious about the reasons why they had been placed up for adoption. The adoptees' feelings when thinking about their birth parents, the curiosity regarding their past, and their adoption-related losses predicted their feelings related to the adoption experience. Several implications for the psychological practice with adopted adolescents will be presented.
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adoption; Adult; Attitude; Child; Child, Adopted; Emotions; Family Relations; Female; Humans; Male; Young Adult
PubMed: 31232096
DOI: 10.1177/1359104519858117 -
Gynecologie, Obstetrique & Fertilite Sep 2011Information on adoption must be given to couples who seek treatment for medically-assisted procreation. But is adoption a real alternative? What are the chances for a... (Review)
Review
Information on adoption must be given to couples who seek treatment for medically-assisted procreation. But is adoption a real alternative? What are the chances for a couple who consults to see its desire for adoption be achieved according to its own situation, the characteristics of the child he wants, and the general situation of adoption? Can adoption, just like assisted procreation, often described by the couples as a "obstacle course", go parallel? Or should one try adoption once assisted reproduction failed? Is the couple willing to suffer the social and legal control of adoption after having supported the medical control of the ART? In all cases, the reality is that two out of three couples engaged in assisted reproduction will have a child whereas scarcely more than one candidate to adoption will be offered to adopt a child after three or four-years procedure.
Topics: Adoption; Adult; Female; France; Humans; Infertility; Male; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Treatment Outcome
PubMed: 21835672
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Fertility and Sterility Apr 1982During an 18-month period 219 couples and 3 single women were counseled concerning private, non-agency adoption. Ninety-seven clients adopted privately a total of 105...
During an 18-month period 219 couples and 3 single women were counseled concerning private, non-agency adoption. Ninety-seven clients adopted privately a total of 105 babies. Thirty-one other couples are still actively pursuing adoption, 39 are no longer pursuing adoption, 13 became pregnant, 9 adopted through an agency, and 33 were lost to follow-up. One hundred of the 105 adopted babies were placed with the family directly from the hospital at 2 to 3 days of age. The majority of the adopting parents had a baby in their home within 4 months of the time they actively began trying to adopt. Four babies were reclaimed by the biologic mother before the adoption was finalized in court, but three of the couples that lost their babies adopted again. The average cost of a private adoption in this series was $3300. Private adoption is an important alternative to agency adoption.
Topics: Adoption; California; Counseling; Humans; Jurisprudence; Universities
PubMed: 7067850
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)46164-9 -
Archives de Pediatrie : Organe Officiel... Feb 2001
Topics: Adoption; Child; Child Welfare; Child, Preschool; Emigration and Immigration; France; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Pediatrics; Physician's Role; Residence Characteristics
PubMed: 11232453
DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(00)90175-1