| Autor: |
Harriet Ward, Lynne Moggach, Susan Tregeagle, Helen Trivedi |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Zdroj: |
Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care ISBN: 9783030764289 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-76429-6_2 |
| Popis: |
The 210 children in the full cohort came from 142 families. Their birth parents’ circumstances provide a context for evaluating adoption outcomes. The chapter explores data collected from the children’s case files and records presented to the court at the time the order was made. Parents demonstrated a high incidence of factors known to be associated with recurrent child abuse: 31% of mothers had experienced abuse in their own childhoods; 45% were known to statutory child welfare services before their child’s birth, and 29% had already experienced the permanent removal of a child. Almost all parents struggled with complex factors including mental health problems, substance misuse, unstable relationships and domestic abuse that placed their children at risk of harm; for some parents, cognitive impairment was an exacerbating factor. About 10% of birth parents had died, and 23% of mothers and 60% of fathers had already lost contact with children before the adoption placement. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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