Critical Adoption Studies: Conversation in Progress

Homans, Margaret; Phelan, Peggy; Ellerby, Janet Mason; Wałker, E.; Balcom, Karen; Myers, Kit; Nelson, Kim; Briggs, Laura; Callahan, Charles D.; Peñta, Rosemarie; Wesseling, Elisabeth; Perreau, Bruno; Curzon, Lucy; Leighton, Kimberly; Yngvesson, Barbara

doi:10.1353/ado.2018.0015

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“…Different cultures have different adoption practices and beliefs. Compare the cultural differences between Western and non-Western cultures that affect every aspect of an adoptive family's life [15]. From the parenting style of the family to the adoption environment and legal process of the society as a whole, there are significant differences.…”

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“…Adoptive parents must meet certain criteria and undergo a thorough evaluation before they are authorized to adopt. On the one hand, adoption is a legal process that transfers the rights and responsibilities of the child from the biological parents to the adoptive parents Publishers [15] . Throughout the adoption process, legal procedures ensure that the best interests of the child are prioritized and their rights protected.…”

Section: Adoption Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Concept of Parental Investment from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective with an Emphasis on Investment Strategies for Adoptive Families: A Review of the Literature

Bao

2024

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Parental investment plays a crucial role in shaping children's well-being and development. While the parental investment of biological parents has been extensively studied, the dynamics of parental investment in adoptive parents have received increasing attention. The purpose of this paper is to explore key concepts and principles related to parental investment in adoptive parents, focusing on cultural beliefs and values, attachment and bonding processes, perceptions of genetic relatedness, adoptive parents' experiences and motivations, and support networks and resources. By examining these factors, this paper seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of parental investment in different family settings. And understanding the evolutionary origins and adaptive significance of adoptive parental investment in the context of adoption will contribute to a deeper understanding of human parental behavior and its impact on child well-being.

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Section: Adoption Practicesmentioning

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Exploring the Concept of Parental Investment from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective with an Emphasis on Investment Strategies for Adoptive Families: A Review of the Literature

Bao

2024

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“…Adoption removes children from their families and communities, appropriating the reproductive labor of birth parents for the benefit of overwhelmingly white, wealthier adoptive parents. Critical adoption studies also place the voices of birth parents and adoptees at the core of adoption discourse, as both groups have historically found their experiences marginalized in favor of centering adoptive parents and adoption practitioners (Homans et al, 2018). In doing so, critical adoption studies build on feminist scholarship that traces the connections between the carceral state, child welfare, and adoption practices, alongside other forms of child removal (Briggs, 2012;Roberts, 2022;Solinger, 2002).…”

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Understanding Adoption as a Reproductive Justice Issue

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Adoption is frequently invoked as a universal social good—an uncomplicated win for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents alike—that obviates the need for abortion. As antiabortionists weaponize adoption to attack reproductive rights, psychologists must recognize adoption as a key reproductive justice issue with significant, lifelong physical and psychological impacts, especially on adopted people and birth parents. Recognizing critical adoption studies as an application of a reproductive justice framework, we argue that psychologists must understand how adoption is both sustained by and reinforces structural inequality and global reproductive injustice. In a post- Roe reality, clinicians and researchers must critically examine adoption histories and myths in order to address the needs of the adoption triad. As an interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians in psychology; medicine; genetic counseling; and women's, gender, sexuality, and Asian American studies, we examine adoption's ties to settler colonialism, racism, classism, and imperialism and interrogate harmful dominant narratives about adoption. We then summarize clinical considerations for working with members of the adoption triad, future directions for research on adoption, and recommendations for both clinicians and researchers to advance adoption competence in the face of current attacks on reproductive rights in the United States.

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“…Critical adoption studies is useful in investigating whether legislative and policy reforms are serving children and other vulnerable groups (Ellerby, 2018) rather than other interests (Briggs, 2018; Callahan, 2018; Myers, 2018; Nelson, 2018; Perreau, 2018). Research from a critical adoption studies perspective does not aim to declare whether adoption is better or worse than other placement options (Homans, 2018). Rather it aims to promote thinking regarding pivotal assumptions about adoption (Phelan, 2018) or use adoption as a way of thinking about other societal assumptions (Balcom, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%