Adoptees' portrayal of the development of family structure

Autor: Michael P. Sobol, Brian M. Earn, Sharon Delaney
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 23:385-401
ISSN: 1573-6601
0047-2891
DOI: 10.1007/bf01536726
Popis: Young adult adoptees and nonadoptees provided retrospective accounts of family relationships from infancy to young adulthood. Adoptive families were portrayed as more cohesive and adaptable than nonadoptive families. Adoptive fathers were recalled as being closer to their children then were nonadoptive fathers in the years preceding adolescence. Within the same time frame, adoptive mothers were drawn in a less hierarchical relation to their children than were other parents. Also, while adoptive males saw themselves as presently unconnected to their adoptive parents, adopted females perceived themselves as more connected to their parents in the present than any other period of time. Openness of communication and acknowledgment of difference in adoptive family formation varied with graphic retrospective accounts. Results were considered in terms of discontinuities between reported observations of adoptive families and adoptees' personal reflections on family developmental history.
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