Adoption as deviance: Socially constructed parent‐child kinship as a stigmatized and legally burdened relationship

Kressierer, Dana Katherine; Bryant, Clifton D.

doi:10.1080/01639625.1996.9968037

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“…While he notes that attitudes are becoming more positive, behavior toward adoption is slow to change; it is still considered a last resort by infertile couples and is sometimes never considered (Baxter, Suter, Thomas, & Seurer, 2015). Thus, there seems to be a cultural preference, or "biologic bias" (Bartholet, 1999), for raising biological children and an underlying stigma associated with raising a non-relative child (Brakman & Scholz, 2006;Kressierer & Bryant, 1996;Suter, Reyes, & Ballard, 2010;Suter, Reyes, & Ballard, 2011;Wegar, 2000;Wegar, 2006).…”

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Michigan Family Review

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“…Although "[t]he benefits of adoption are well recognized" (Smith et al, 2008, p. 9), scholars have long noted that adoptive relationships remain highly stigmatized (Bartholet, 1993;Fisher, 2003;Gorman, 2004;March, 1995;Wegar, 2000). For instance, Miall (1994) suggests that adoptive parents are pitied because of their assumed infertility, Kressierer and Bryant (1996) argue that adoptive parent-child relationships are questioned due to their "ambiguous linkages" (see also Weir, 2003), Fisher (2003 notes that adoption is typically considered unnatural, less "real," and "second best" compared to traditional biological families, and Schneider (1980) asserts that the legitimacy of adoption is undercut by the fact that "the relationship which is 'real' or 'true' or 'blood' or 'by birth' can never be severed, whatever its legal position" (p. 24).…”

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The Role of Heritage Camps in Identity Development Among Korean Transnational Adoptees: A Relational Dialectics Approach

Randolph

Holtzman

2010

Adoption Quarterly

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This study contributes to the literature on transracial adoptions in two important ways: (1) it compares how parents and transnational adoptees negotiate racial and family identities through the use of heritage camps and (2) it informs that comparison with insights garnered from the theory of relational dialectics. The results, which are based on interviews with Korean-born children and Caucasian-American parents (matched parent-child pairs), suggest that parents utilized camps to both downplay their children's racial differences and give credence to their children's "unique" lives. Adoptees, in contrast, were not concerned with downplaying race; instead, they reported that although camps were fun, they did not impact their sense of identity significantly because they did not do enough to address the racial challenges they faced. These results suggest a potential disjuncture between parental purposes for utilizing heritage camps and the actual experiences of adoptees while at these camps. Moreover, they suggest that additional empirical attention should be paid to adoption policies and practices that explicitly address the racial and ethnic needs of transnational adoptees.

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“…A partir de la identificación de los símbolos de estigma, se construye una teoría del estigma o una ideología que, socialmente, no solo da cuenta de la condición de inferioridad de quienes los portan, sino que también servirá para justificar su discriminación o su no aceptación en un intercambio social corriente. La finalidad social al identificar el atributo estigmatizante no es otra que la de confirmar a los normales, así como a la ideología que los sustenta (Erving Goffman (1963) la norma social (Kressierer y Bryant, 1996). La sociedad identifica en el nexo biológico el requisito previo de una «auténtica» unión y relación filial.…”

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Estigma social y adopción internacional en España. ¿Es la familia adoptiva un modelo familiar menos «auténtico» que los basados en lazos biológicos?

Jaume

Jareño-Ruiz

2015

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Papers 2015, 100/2 http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2070 211-236Estigma social y adopción internacional en España. ¿Es la familia adoptiva un modelo familiar menos «auténtico» que los basados en lazos biológicos?María José Rodríguez-Jaume Diana Jareño Ruiz ResumenEn España, el fenómeno de las adopciones internacionales irrumpe en la década de 1990. En 2004, se convirtió en el segundo país del mundo que las llevaba a cabo. Con el objetivo de incrementar el conocimiento sociológico sobre la familia adoptiva internacional española, se realizó la encuesta a través de web titulada Las familias adoptivas y sus estilos de vida. A partir de las respuestas ofrecidas por 230 madres y padres adoptivos, se dibuja el perfil sociodemográfico de sus hogares. Estos se caracterizarían por contar con progenitores con elevado nivel formativo, no adscritos a ninguna religión, que defienden políticas de izquierdas y que comparten un sistema de valores posmodernos respecto a la institución familiar. La identificación de la estructura doméstica según su tipo de alianza (biparental o monoparental) y su tipo de filiación (adoptiva o mixta) nos permite situar a la adopción contemporánea como una opción de filiación elegida y no, exclusivamente, como alternativa ante la imposibilidad de tener hijos biológicos. Adicionalmente, los resultados arrojados por la encuesta nos permiten adentrarnos en uno de los aspectos menos abordados en el estudio sociológico de la familia adoptiva: el papel de las actitudes sociales hacia la adopción y su impacto en aquella. La mayoría de los encuestados perciben el estigma social del que es objeto su familia adoptiva, pues, desde su punto de vista, la sociedad las considera como una forma de hogar menos satisfactoria que la basada en lazos biológicos. Palabras clave: familia interracial; familia adoptiva transnacional; nuevas formas de hogar; encuesta en línea; estigmatización; sanciones sociales; actitudes de la comunidad.212 Papers 2015, 100/2 María José Rodríguez-Jaume; Diana Jareño Ruiz Abstract. Social stigma and international adoption in Spain: Is the adoptive family a less 'authentic' (family) model than those based on biological ties?In Spain, the phenomenon of international adoptions began in the nineties, becoming the second country in the world in number of international adoptions in 2004. With the aim of increasing knowledge about the international adoptive Spanish family, the computer-assisted online survey Adoptive families and their lifestyles was distributed. From the responses given by 230 adoptive mothers and fathers, the socio-demographic profile of adoptive Spanish families becomes visible. These families are characterized for having parents with a high educational level, who do not ascribe to any religion, defend left-wing politics, and share a system of postmodern values regarding the family institution. The identification of the family structure according to the type of alliance (two-parent family or single-parent family) and type of filiation (adoptive or mixed) allows us to plac...

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Adoption as deviance: Socially constructed parent‐child kinship as a stigmatized and legally burdened relationship

Cited by 33 publications

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The Role of Heritage Camps in Identity Development Among Korean Transnational Adoptees: A Relational Dialectics Approach

Estigma social y adopción internacional en España. ¿Es la familia adoptiva un modelo familiar menos «auténtico» que los basados en lazos biológicos?

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