Reframing adoptive family narratives through digital and social media technologies

Samuels, Julie

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“…55 Advancements through social media have also made it much easier to locate relatives of their family of origin. 56 Other available routes include exploration of reunion registries, reestablishment of ties in a lapsed open adoption, or restoration of other ties that have connections to the child's family.…”

Section: Adoption and Permanencymentioning

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Pediatrician Guidance in Supporting Families of Children Who Are Adopted, Fostered, or in Kinship Care

2020

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The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption. Pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children' s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential. Although this report primarily focuses on children in the US child welfare system, private and internationally adopted children often have similar needs. THE FACES OF CHILD WELFARE IN THE UNITED STATES The child welfare system strives to protect the safety of children while supporting families whose children are placed in foster care. In this document, the term "child" includes infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The child welfare system also serves as a bridge to the primary goal of permanency through reunification or adoption. On September 30, 2018, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System reported that 437 283 children and adolescents were in foster care. 1 Of these children, 262 956 entered foster care during the fiscal year of 2018, with 250 103 exiting foster care. The number of children served in the foster care system during 2018 was 687 345. There were 125 422 children waiting to be adopted, with 71 254 having parental rights terminated and 63 123 subsequently being adopted from care. Primary reasons for entering foster care include neglect (62%), parental substance use (36%), poor coping skills of the caregiver (14%), physical abuse (13%), and inadequate housing (10%). Other reasons that account for less than 10% in each category include child behavior problems, parental incarceration, parental alcoholism, abandonment, sexual abuse, child disability, relinquishment, parental death, and child alcohol and other substance use. 1 A growing number of children, estimated to be 5% to 10%

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Section: Adoption and Permanencymentioning

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Pediatrician Guidance in Supporting Families of Children Who Are Adopted, Fostered, or in Kinship Care

2020

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“…In other words, social media may allow others to find and view your information without your knowledge. A few studies that included the perspectives of both adoptive parents and adopted adults (primarily within the United Kingdom) found that tech-mediated contact that was used as a supplement to already established relationships with birth families helped to make contact feel less formal and thereby normalize the adoptees' dual connection with their birth family (Greenhow et al, 2016;Neil et al, 2013;Samuels, 2018).…”

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Tech‐Mediated and Traditional Communication Modes in Adult Adoptees' Contact With Birth Parents

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ObjectiveTo understand how adult adoptees use traditional and tech‐mediated modes of communication in contact with birth parents. To examine associations between desire for increased use of both modes and quality of relationship.BackgroundAs tech‐mediated modes of communication become more commonplace, it is important to understand their implications for family relationship quality. Limited research has examined the use of tech‐mediated modes of communication between adult adoptees and birth parents.MethodParticipants (Mage = 31 years) were adopted as infants (N = 90). Participants reported their current and desired future use of traditional and tech‐mediated communication modes and their satisfaction with contact, current closeness, desired future closeness, and psychological presence of birth parents.ResultsThose with current contact reported using both traditional and tech‐mediated modes of communication. Desired increase of traditional modes was associated with greater psychological presence and desired future closeness with birth mothers, while both traditional and tech‐mediated were associated with these outcomes for birth fathers.ConclusionAdult adoptees use both traditional and tech‐mediated modes of communication with their birth parents. However, these modes may play distinct roles in maintaining close relationships with birth parents.ImplicationsFamily professionals should consider the unique roles traditional and tech‐mediated modes of communication may play when supporting adult adoptees in contact with birth relatives.

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Reframing adoptive family narratives through digital and social media technologies

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Pediatrician Guidance in Supporting Families of Children Who Are Adopted, Fostered, or in Kinship Care

Pediatrician Guidance in Supporting Families of Children Who Are Adopted, Fostered, or in Kinship Care

Tech‐Mediated and Traditional Communication Modes in Adult Adoptees' Contact With Birth Parents

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