While research has explored birth parent grief and loss, it has not been thorough in exploring how the experience of having an open adoption affects birth parents’ grief and loss experience and resolution. Previous research has highlighted positive effects of open adoptions to date, but is quite limited in regards to the birth parents’ adjustment in current day, open adoptions. This descriptive, qualitative study explores birth parents’ experiences in current day, open adoptions and seeks to understand their experience of grief and loss and their movement towards grief resolution in the context of an open adoption. Findings of this study confirm that the experience of adoption placement involves grief and loss and that openness in adoption ...
International audienceWhile the literature on international adoption has mostly focused on children'...
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine reunion outcomes between adult adoptees and bir...
Using 323 matched parties of birth mothers and adoptive parents, this study examined the association...
While research has explored birth parent grief and loss, it has not been thorough in exploring how ...
The qualitative study explores the impact of openness in the adoption experience has on grief and lo...
Since 1984, regular contact, or openness, between birthmothers and the adoptive family has been prac...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
The purpose of this phenomenological study on the lived experiences of 14 adoptive parents in Albert...
95% of adoption in the United States are open adoptions (Siegel & Smith, 2012). Past research has fo...
Adoption policy, practice and law are undergoing rapid change in British Columbia. One of the recent...
ii Since 1984, regular contact, or openness, between birthmothers and the adoptive family has been p...
This paper explores the impact of adoption on birth parents and grandparents. Six years post-adoptio...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
This study examined relinquishing mothers experiences in open adoption in the state of Victoria, Aus...
International audienceWhile the literature on international adoption has mostly focused on children'...
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine reunion outcomes between adult adoptees and bir...
Using 323 matched parties of birth mothers and adoptive parents, this study examined the association...
While research has explored birth parent grief and loss, it has not been thorough in exploring how ...
The qualitative study explores the impact of openness in the adoption experience has on grief and lo...
Since 1984, regular contact, or openness, between birthmothers and the adoptive family has been prac...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
The purpose of this phenomenological study on the lived experiences of 14 adoptive parents in Albert...
95% of adoption in the United States are open adoptions (Siegel & Smith, 2012). Past research has fo...
Adoption policy, practice and law are undergoing rapid change in British Columbia. One of the recent...
ii Since 1984, regular contact, or openness, between birthmothers and the adoptive family has been p...
This paper explores the impact of adoption on birth parents and grandparents. Six years post-adoptio...
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the cli...
This study examined relinquishing mothers experiences in open adoption in the state of Victoria, Aus...
International audienceWhile the literature on international adoption has mostly focused on children'...
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine reunion outcomes between adult adoptees and bir...
Using 323 matched parties of birth mothers and adoptive parents, this study examined the association...