Contact in Adoption: The Experience of Adoptive Families in the USA

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Contact in adoption is a complex issue that adoption professionals frequently negotiate. Today most adoption placements include an initial plan for contact that in many instances changes over time. By understanding contact as an issue that presents itself over the course of an adopted person's lifetime, the complexities it brings to the adoption experience can be seen. Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D Grotevant, Jerica Berge, Tai Mendenhall and Ruth McRoy discuss contact from a US perspective using findings from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Project, a longitudinal study of openness in adoption. They examine how curiosity, satisfaction with adoptive contact, family communication and searching influence decision-making about the extent of contact. Implications for adoption professionals in the USA and the UK are also presented.

Department(s)

Psychology

Publication Title

Adoption and Fostering

Volume

27

Issue

1

First Page

57

Last Page

67

Publication Date

4-1-2003

DOI

10.1177/030857590302700108

ISSN

03085759

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