Contact, welfare and children in care: revisiting the significance of birth family relationships after finding significant harm
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DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2016.1275124
Abstract: Abstract The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews… read more here.
Keywords: child; family; birth family; contact ... See more keywords
Communicatively Constructing Birth Family Relationships in Open Adoptive Families: Naming, Connecting, and Relational Functioning
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DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2018.1429444
Abstract: ABSTRACT Open adoption (i.e., involving ongoing communication between birth and adoptive families) has become the predominant form of private domestic adoption. As such, an understanding of the communicative structures that create and sustain these families… read more here.
Keywords: naming connecting; open adoptive; birth; family ... See more keywords