1999
DOI: 10.1177/030857599902300305
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Abstract: Janette Logan reports on the findings of a research study which examined the experiences of adoptive parents and birth parents who were involved in an information exchange scheme. While both acknowledged the importance of exchanging information, different views were expressed as to how the exchange should happen and people's experiences were considerably influenced by their pattern and process of exchange. This study provides empirical evidence to suggest that the exchange of information is by no means straigh… Show more

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“…Adoptive relationships must be understood in a lifespan context (Schechter and Bertocci, 1990;Brodzinsky, Lang and Smith, 1995;Grotevant and McRoy, 1998;Logan, 1999;Selman 1999;Howe and Feast, 2000). Desire for information may intensify at some points and be less central at others.…”
Section: Adoptive Relationships Across Timementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adoptive relationships must be understood in a lifespan context (Schechter and Bertocci, 1990;Brodzinsky, Lang and Smith, 1995;Grotevant and McRoy, 1998;Logan, 1999;Selman 1999;Howe and Feast, 2000). Desire for information may intensify at some points and be less central at others.…”
Section: Adoptive Relationships Across Timementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For birth relatives the pain that follows from having a child adopted can be acute and long lasting, both when children are relinquished (see, for example, Winkler and Van Keppel, 1984;Howe et al, 1992;Logan, 1999) and when they are adopted through the care system (Ryburn, 1994;Fratter, 1996;Mason and Selman, 1997). Issues of personal, psychological and social disadvantage are central to the reasons why children are removed from their families; the process and consequences of having a child adopted then further compounds these difficulties.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over time some birth mothers do not keep up planned contact because without support it is very hard to manage the painful feelings that such contact can arouse (eg Etter, 1993;Berry et al, 1998;Logan, 1999). Christian et al (1997) found that some relinquishing birth mothers reduced or stopped having contact because once satisfied that the child was all right they felt less need for the contact.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In ART families, the primary benefits that promote disclosure to children are a desire for openness in the family and a desire to avoid secrecy (Lindblad, Gottlieb, & Lalos, 2000; Lycett et al, 2005). The benefits of openness in families created through ART may be forecasted by the findings advocating openness in adoptive families, a family type that confronts many of the same privacy issues as families created through ART (Berge, Mendenhall, Wrobel, Grotevant, & McRoy, 2006; Groth, Bonnardel, Devis, Martin, & Vousden, 1987; Jones & Hackett, 2007; Logan, 1999). According to Lycett et al (2005), 13% of families surveyed had already told the child of his or her genetic origins, and another 26% intended to tell the child in the future.…”
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confidence: 99%