Emotional Themes within International Adoption Children’s Books

Fitzpatrick, Jacki; Kostina-Ritchey, Erin

doi:10.3998/mfr.4919087.0016.104

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“…Similar to adopted children (Fitzpatrick & Kostina-Ritchey, 2012), siblings were sometimes portrayed as distant or insecure about the family changes that occurred. Similar to adopted children (Fitzpatrick & Kostina-Ritchey, 2012), siblings were sometimes portrayed as distant or insecure about the family changes that occurred.…”

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“…In some books, pre-adoptive siblings and adoptees were not shown as having easy relationship formations. Similar to adopted children (Fitzpatrick & Kostina-Ritchey, 2012), siblings were sometimes portrayed as distant or insecure about the family changes that occurred. However, the relationships became more positive after siblings took on the protective role.…”

Section: Protector Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sibling Roles Represented in Children's Books about Chinese–US Family Adoption

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Kostina-Ritchey²

2012

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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This study examined the presence of protector and educator sibling roles in children's books about adoption of Chinese daughters by US families. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on a sample of 27 books. The books were coded independently by two researchers. Directional coding (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005) for the presence/absence of protector and educator roles was conducted. The results indicated that the protector role was evident when siblings were (i) caring about adoptees’ entry into the families, (ii) providing comfort when adoptees were scared, and (iii) intervening when adoptees were bullied. The educator role was evident when siblings were (i) seeking to bridge linguistic barriers, (ii) preparing to teach adoptees about China, and (iii) explaining birth/adoptive parent distinctions. Implications of this study are offered for family and consumer science researchers and practitioners/service providers.

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Section: Protector Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

Sibling Roles Represented in Children's Books about Chinese–US Family Adoption

Fitzpatrick¹,

Kostina-Ritchey²

2012

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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“…In this vein, several studies deal with the representation of parent-child relationships within the adoptive sphere. Although my focus here is on audiovisual and representational issues, the interest in identitarian and emotional features in children's books about adoption is remarkable (Ayres 2004;Fitzpatrick 2012), including family formation processes (Fitzpatrick and Kostina-Ritchey 2013) or even the correlation between long-term discourses on adoption and other social practices such as abortion (Hall and Stolley 1997). Furthermore, the specific conditions that international adoptees meet at school, as well as the role of teachers as professionals who must be aware of such differences, are also considered in some specific literature (Baker 2013).…”

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Imaginarios situados: contribuciones del análisis audiovisual a la comprensión de la adopción

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2017

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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SUMMARYIn this article, I inquire about the kind of new knowledge audiovisual insights could provide in the field of International Adoption studies, and how these outcomes could give rise to new ways of approaching that subject. In doing so, I tackle the centrality of cultural imaginaries in International Adoption and the prolificacy of audiovisual research in anthropology to gain a better understanding. Hence, I consider adoptive itineraries as culturally situated contexts that render folk ideologies visible and may become foundational imaginaries that demand the encompassment of academic research with a more general ethnographic comprehension of such cultural representations and ideologies.Key words: Audiovisual Research; Anthropology; International Adoption; Adoptive Imaginaries. RESUMENEn este artículo reflexiono acerca de los nuevos conocimientos que la investigación audiovisual podría aportar al ámbito de los estudios en adopción internacional y en cómo sus resultados pueden iluminar nuevas formas de aproximarse al problema. Para ello, parto de la centralidad de los imaginarios culturales en la adopción internacional y de la fecundidad de la investigación audiovisual en antropología para su mejor comprensión. De este modo, considero los itinerarios adoptivos como contextos culturalmente situados que visibilizan ideologías populares y pueden devenir imaginarios fundacionales que reclaman la imbricación de la investigación académica con una comprensión etnográfica más general de estas ideologías y representaciones culturales.

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