Open adoption and diverse families : complex relationships in the digital age / Abbie E. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Abbie E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open adoption--United States.

Open adoption.

Adoption--United States--Psychological aspects.

Adoption.

Social media.

Adoptees--Family relationships.

Adoptees.

United States.

Psychological aspects.

Adoptees--Family relationships--United States.

Social media--United States.

Adoption--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 444 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Setting the stages : open adoption, gay parenthood, the digital age, and the current study

Getting to adoption: the path before the path

Orienting to open adoption, considering contact, and reflecting on race : pre-adoption perspectives and preferences

"Meeting the reality of our situation" : placement experiences and circumstances and post-placement openness and contact

Imagining and enacting birth family contact over time : trajectories of openness among private domestic adopters

Navigating openness and contact in child welfare adoptions

Adoption talk : communicative openness throughout childhood

Weaving a family narrative : genetics talk

Facebook as facilitator or foe: boundaries and birth family relationships on social media and beyond

Absence and ambivalence : how birth fathers fit into adoption stories

Summing up : practical strategies and applications for families

Appendix A. Demographic information for participants

Appendix B. Data analysis process.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Goldberg, Abbie E., author. Open adoption and diverse families

ISBN:

9780190692032

0190692030

OCLC:

1090698703