Adoptive Identity
How Contexts Within and Beyond the Family Shape Developmental Pathways
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5778625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold D Grotevant (0000-0001-5800-1522, University of Minnesota), Nora Dunbar (University of California, Santa Cruz), Julie K Kohler (University of Minnesota), Amy M Lash Esau (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 379-387 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Family Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-6664 • E-ISSN: 1741-3729 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00379.x |
| OpenAlex | W2024948387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 110 |
| References cited | 39 |
The focus of this paper is adoptive identity, the sense of who one is as an adopted person. The paper first considers how identity has been shaped by recent social changes, and then explores the meaning of adoptive identity and its developmental course. Three contexts of development are examined: intrapsychic, the family environment, and contexts beyond the family, including relationships with friends, connection to community, and culture. Implications for professionals who work with adopted persons and for needed research are also discussed
Identity formation · Psychology of self · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Support in Illness · Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Crowdsourcing identities
Adoption Across Race, Culture and Class
Just Beyond my Front Door”
Adoptive Identity
Adoptees facing adolescence
Unsettled adoptive identity
“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”
Family functioning and racial socialization in transracial adoptive families
Introduction
Search and Reunification
Discrimination and mental health in adult transracial adoptees
Young Adult Daughters of Lesbian Mothers Speak
Gay and Lesbian Family Building
Korean transracial and international adoptees
I did not belong
Adoptive Mothers
Como é vivida a adoção na adolescência? Construção de um Questionário de Sentimentos relacionados com a adoção
I walk in the way of my ancestors
Euro-American Parents’ Socialization for the Multiple Identities of Children Adopted from China
Searching for connection—Finding resolution
Narrating Displacement Adoptees’ Challenges Due to Minority Stress
Promising practice for maintaining identities in First Nation adoption
Korean Adoptee Identity
A current review of adoption research
Attitudes towards adoption disclosure in Singapore
The Evolving Nature and Process of Foster Family Communication
Korean transracial adoptee identity formation
Ethically Informed Practice with Families Formed via International Adoption
Chercher ses origines sur Facebook
Narrative Coherence in Online Stories Told by Members of the Adoption Triad
Forever Kind of Wondering”
Becoming "Point and Click" Parents
Contributing Factors of Adult Adoptees’ Identity Work and Self-Esteem
I Want the Piece of Paper that Is My History, and Why the Hell Can’t I Have It?”
Dear Birth Mother”
Identity Development in an International Transracial Adoptive Family
Exploring the Narrative Process
International and Transracial Adoption
To Meet Her, that Changed Everything”
Cultural naming practices in children's literature with adoption themes
Islamic Principles On Adoption
Renaming in Adoption
No more secrets, it’s over!’
We’re the Same All the Way Around”
U.S. Transracial Adoption Trends in the 21st Century
Adoption as a Diversity Issue in Professional Preparation
Family Outings
Exploring Birth Countries
Relationships without Borders
Mothers Raising Daughters
Navigating Microaggressions and Family Belonging as French Intercountry Adoptees
Child Preparation for Adoption as an Ethical Requirement during Pre-Placement
The Impact of Openness on Adoption Agency Practices
Transracial Adoptees
The Disability of Adoption
The Archeology of Adoption
Known and Unknown Identities
Adoption as a Contingency of Self-worth
Happily Ever After? The Journey From Foster Care to Adoption
International Adoption
The Legacy of Exploitation in Intercountry Adoptions from Ethiopia
Protagonists' and Adoptive Process Representations in Italian Children's Books About International Adoption
Adoption and Identity Experiences Among Adult Transnational Adoptees
Letting Her Go
Discourses and Themes in Adoption and Child Welfare Policies and Practices in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries
The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model
Beyond Telling
Measuring Adoptive Identity
A Comparison of Biological and Adoptive Mothers and Fathers
The Role of Heritage Camps in Identity Development Among Korean Transnational Adoptees
It Was Like This, I Think”
Sources of Identity Uncertainty for Adult Adopted Individuals
Reunions of Adoptees Who Have Met Both Birth Parents
Feelings Toward Adoption and Well-Being Among Adolescent Adoptees
Searching for the Self
Attachment in a Group of Adult International Adoptees
Self-esteem and problem behavior in Dutch adolescents conceived through sperm donation in planned lesbian parent families
An Autoethnographic Journey of Intercountry Adoption
Stories of Aboriginal Transracial Adoption
Antisocial Behavior of Adoptees and Nonadoptees
Adoptees’ Contact With Birth Relatives in Emerging Adulthood
The Emergence of Psychosocial Engagement in Adopted Adolescents
What Do You Say to Your Mother When Your Mother's Standing Beside You?” Birth and Adoptive Family Contributions to Adoptive Identity via Relational Identity and Relational–Relational Identity Gaps
Writing about our adoption’
Exploring the ethical implications of the late discovery of adoptive and donor-insemination offspring status
Creating a New Narrative
When people adopted from severely depriving institutions become parents
Understanding how adults adopted in England pre-1989 experience parenthood
Adopted Chinese girls come of age
Expecting an already born child
Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks
Adoption workers’ perspectives on adoption adjustment and the honeymoon period
Adoptive identity and adjustment from adolescence to emerging adulthood
Counseling Adopted Persons in Adulthood
The Transracial Adoption Paradox
Counseling Psychology Meets the Complex World of Adoption
Engagement in Racial Socialization Among Transracial Adoptive Families With White Parents
Adoptive parents’ perspectives on adoption adjustment and post-adoption support
To Search or Not to Search? Transnational Adopted Individuals’ Reflexive Accounts on Searching for First Parents
Crafting Identity out of Uncertainty
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the LifespanPsychological Perspectives
Ego Identity
Patterns of Interaction in Family Relationships and the Development of Identity Exploration in Adolescence
Children's Understanding of Adoption
Adjustment to adoption
The Status of the Statuses
Identity
Identity, the Identity Statuses, and Identity Status Development
The Identity Status Field Re-reviewed
Patterns of Adolescent Identity Development
The Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project
Changing Agency Practices Toward Openness in Adoption
Coming to Terms with Adoption
Making a “Real” Family
Psychiatric Disorders Among Adopted Children
Cultural Identity and Place in Adult Korean-American Intercountry Adoptees
Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
Adaptive Behavior in Adopted Children
Toward a Process Model of Identity Formation
Gender and Identity
Adoption and disruption
Adoption, Identity and Kinship
Transracial Adoptees and their Families
Adoptive Kinship
Special-Needs Adoption
Adopted adults’ perception of their need to search
Sex differences in styles of occupational identity formation in late adolescence
Family Ideology
American Kinship
Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma
| Unique citing works | 110 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,4 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |