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Why and how do parents decide to adopt? A study on motivations and the decision‐making process in becoming an adoptive family.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; Aug2023, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p753-763, 11p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- There are several motives underlying the process of deciding to become an adoptive family. However, research exploring this issue is scarce and essentially focused on infertility as the main motivation. The present mixed‐method study aims to fill in this gap by exploring, retrospectively, the motives to adopt of 126 Portuguese adoptive parents. The Parents' Interview on the Adoption Process was used to identify the motives to adopt and describe the adoption decision‐making process. Seven main motives (biological issues, filling in a void/loneliness, adoption as a life project, expanding the family, philanthropy, contact with the child protection system and parenthood) were identified. These motives can be centred on the self, the child or both simultaneously and are characterized by dynamism, permeability and interconnection. Findings allowed for establishing conceptual considerations on motivations to adopt and recommendations for adoption practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ADOPTION & psychology
PARENT attitudes
RESEARCH
FRIENDSHIP
STATISTICS
CHARITY
CONFIDENCE intervals
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
RESEARCH methodology
RETROSPECTIVE studies
ACQUISITION of data
INTERVIEWING
ATTITUDES toward adoption
PARENTHOOD
PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
INFERTILITY
DECISION making
MEDICAL records
RESEARCH funding
LONELINESS
CHILD welfare
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
PSYCHOLOGY of adoptive parents
FAMILY relations
DATA analysis software
CONTENT analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164962137
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13001