Add to ORKGTotal secrecy and confidentiality no longer typify adoption in the United States. Today, most adoptions involve an exchange of information or some form of contact between the birth family and adoptive family - so-called open adoptions. This article provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with various forms of open adoption, including issues of privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, paternalism, conflicts of interest, deception, and truthtelling.We present guidelines for social work practice in open adoptions, based on current ethical theory and ethical standards in social work
As openness in adoption is still in its infancy, there has not been much systematic research on ...
This Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of...
Open adoptions have increased over the past few decades, and although guidance for considering and c...
Total secrecy and confidentiality no longer typify adoption in the United States. Today, most adopti...
A ll social work practice is value based and laden withethical issues and dilemmas. This is striking...
There is currently a focus in adoption research on the processes that influence adoption-related adj...
After a long history of secrecy in domestic adoption in the United States, there is a robust trend t...
An adoption takes place for several reasons, as a result of an unwanted pregnancy, lack of a proper...
In open adoptions, birth and adoptive families exchange identifying information and have contact. Al...
One significant change in adoption practice that has occurred over the last four decades is the shif...
This Article discusses ethical issues relevant to adoption attorneys, as well as the lessons from be...
Lawyers engaged in adoption work often call it “happy law,” and consider adoption – finding a child ...
In this article, community assessments of support for three levels of open adoption are exam-ined, i...
The aim of the current study was to investigate the possible impact that secrecy within adoptive fam...
While adoption has been in existence for centuries, only in recent years has open adoption, the proc...
As openness in adoption is still in its infancy, there has not been much systematic research on ...
This Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of...
Open adoptions have increased over the past few decades, and although guidance for considering and c...
Total secrecy and confidentiality no longer typify adoption in the United States. Today, most adopti...
A ll social work practice is value based and laden withethical issues and dilemmas. This is striking...
There is currently a focus in adoption research on the processes that influence adoption-related adj...
After a long history of secrecy in domestic adoption in the United States, there is a robust trend t...
An adoption takes place for several reasons, as a result of an unwanted pregnancy, lack of a proper...
In open adoptions, birth and adoptive families exchange identifying information and have contact. Al...
One significant change in adoption practice that has occurred over the last four decades is the shif...
This Article discusses ethical issues relevant to adoption attorneys, as well as the lessons from be...
Lawyers engaged in adoption work often call it “happy law,” and consider adoption – finding a child ...
In this article, community assessments of support for three levels of open adoption are exam-ined, i...
The aim of the current study was to investigate the possible impact that secrecy within adoptive fam...
While adoption has been in existence for centuries, only in recent years has open adoption, the proc...
As openness in adoption is still in its infancy, there has not been much systematic research on ...
This Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of...
Open adoptions have increased over the past few decades, and although guidance for considering and c...