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Sharing Information About The Child With Adoptive Parents, Barbara Ashmun, Beverly Mckinney Erickson, Bente Roberts Parker
Sharing Information About The Child With Adoptive Parents, Barbara Ashmun, Beverly Mckinney Erickson, Bente Roberts Parker
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The study examined differences in the adoption process between successful and unsuccessful adoptions. The focus of the study was on how much information the parents received about the child prior to placement and on related aspects of the process by which a child is placed in an adoptive home. All information for this study was gathered from the records kept on each child who is placed.
The procedure used was to examine the records of successful and unsuccessful adoptions in three stages. First, an assessment was made of amount and type of information available in the records. It was found …