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Direct linkAmy Burke; Melody Zoch – Journal of Children's Literature, 2023
In this article, the authors analyze four picturebooks about adoption that highlight these experiences of liminality. Children who have been adopted may feel torn between two families and cultures. Children who are adopted must make sense of their lives and identities, residing in a state of in-between-ness. Adoption presents a time of…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Picture Books, Adoption, Trauma Informed Approach
Paniagua, Carmen; Moreno, Carmen; Román, Maite; Palacios, Jesús; Grotevant, Harold D.; Rivera, Francisco – Youth & Society, 2020
This study compares a sample of 223 adopted adolescents with a nonadopted reference group representative of the Spanish adolescent population from the "Spanish Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study." Variables related to the family context, peers, school context, and emotional well-being are compared. Adoptees are not…
Descriptors: Adoption, Well Being, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Rosnati, Rosa; Pinderhughes, Ellen E.; Baden, Amanda L.; Grotevant, Harold D.; Lee, Richard M.; Mohanty, Jayashree – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The collective findings of the six articles in this special issue highlight the importance of ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic identity among international transracial adoptees (ITRAs). A multidimensional developmental phenomenon, ethnic identity intersects with other identities, notably adoptive identity. Family, peers, community, and host…
Descriptors: Adoption, Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Multiracial Persons
Chiodo, John J.; Meliza, Evette – Social Studies, 2014
Between 1854 and 1930, over 200,000 children left New York City, as well as other major east coast cities, bound for families in rural areas. They traveled to towns in New England, the Midwest, the South, and even as far west as Texas, California, Oregon, and Washington. These orphans were the children of immigrant families who were pouring into…
Descriptors: United States History, Adoption, Immigrants, Social Problems
Goldberg, Abbie E.; Smith, JuliAnna Z. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
This is the first study to examine change in depression and anxiety across the first year of adoptive parenthood in same-sex couples (90 couples: 52 lesbian, 38 gay male). Given that sexual minorities uniquely contend with sexual orientation-related stigma, this study examined how both internalized and enacted forms of stigma affect the mental…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Parents, Homosexuality, Social Environment
Download full textCook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Peer reviewedDumaret, Annick; Stewart, John, Translator – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Studies medium- and long-effects of types of placement of children of lower class families. The progeny of 28 disadvantaged women was reconstituted. Results show increase in IQ and diminuition of scholastic futures for adopted children and diminuition of IQ and increase in scholastic failure among children reared by mother in disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adoption, Biological Parents, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedHollingsworth, Leslie Doty – Social Work, 2003
The practice of international adoption of children is critiqued, using an egalitarian concept of a distributive method of social justice. From this perspective, international adoption may be perceived as contradictory to principles of social justice by ignoring the social context within which it occurs. Possible solutions are critiqued and…
Descriptors: Adoption, Childrens Rights, Social Environment, Social Work
Friedlander, Myrna L. – Counseling Psychologist, 2003
Implications are discussed in response to the Major Contribution in this issue reviewing the history, controversies, and theoretical and research literature related to adoption. Practice recommendations for therapists working with adopted children and their families are clustered around three prominent themes in the reviews by Lee, O'Brien and…
Descriptors: Children, Social Environment, Adoption, History
Zamostny, Kathy P.; O'Brien, Karen M.; Baden, Amanda L.; Wiley, Mary O'Leary – Counseling Psychologist, 2003
This article presents an overview of the practice of adoption to counseling psychologists to promote clinical understanding of the adoption experience and to stimulate research on adoption. The article includes definitions of adoption terminology, important historical and legal developments for adoption, a summary of adoption statistics,…
Descriptors: Models, Psychologists, Counseling Psychology, Social Environment
Peer reviewedDuyme, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Eighty-seven children relinquished at birth and adopted before the age of three years into different social classes were assessed in late adolescence. Findings indicated that the school failure of adoptees varies as a function of the social class of the adopive parents: the higher the social class, the lower the number of repeated grades. (RH)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Adoption, Fathers
Mookherjee, Nayanika – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the "state of exception" through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of "war-babies" (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and elimination of certain childhoods while the raped women were rekinned within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Pregnancy, Family Planning
Rosengard, Barbara, Ed. – 1974
This pamphlet contains a descriptive list of projects funded in Fiscal Year 1973 by the Research and Evaluation Division of the Children's Bureau, Office of Child Development. In addition, a few projects are included which were funded in earlier years but are still ongoing due to an extension of the grant period. The projects are arranged by these…
Descriptors: Adoption, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Day Care
