Karen March
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen March |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | March |
| SIGNATURE | MARCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8815-8720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 1
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers are called to engage in political activity at the micro, mezzo and macro levels for the advancement of social justice and human rights.NASW has mechanisms in place to aggregate the voices of individual social workers through political activity.Drawing on a model of civic voluntarism, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of political activity on decisions by Texas social workers to jo…
Unwed motherhood, adoption reunion and stigmatized social identities
Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers show they had been stigmatized for their unwed motherhood and hid this identity to protect self from social censure. The public exposure created by reunion contact with their adult placed children required new ways to manage this stigma trait. The women engaged in a process of identity talk supported by their understanding of altered perceptions of female sexuality and a…
Finding My Place
This study describes how essentialist notions of motherhood infl uence adoption reunion outcomes. The data analysis is based primarily on in-depth interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers. Collectively, the birth mothers perceived themselves to be the mothers of a child lost to them through adoption. Reunion contact jeopardized this perception when the mothers met adopted adults who did not accept their mothering overtures. Continued contact mea…
Birth mother grief and the challenge of adoption reunion contact
A large body of work exists on the grief expressed by birth mothers over the loss of their children to adoption. Less is known about the grief emotions that surface when these women are contacted by adopted adults who seek contact relationships. The themes of mourning, grief, and bereavement that emerged in the qualitative interview data of 33 reunited birth mothers indicate more attention be given to these social psychological processes. Suggest…
Nelson, Margaret. The Social Economy of Single Motherhood
Nelson, Margaret. THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: RAISING CHILDREN IN RURAL AMERICA." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 38(4), pp. 664–665
Reinforcing the Motherhood Ideal
Dans cet article, les auteures étudient l'idée que les gens se font des méres biologiques qui transmettent leurs droits parentaux à des parents adoptifs. Des différences selon les sexes ressortent de la description des méres biologiques qui élaborent un plan d'adoption et des explications de leurs raisons pour avoir choisi le placement dans un foyer adoptif. Lorsqu'une femme élève son enfant biologique, les conceptions sur l'im‐portance inhérente…
Open Adoption as a Family Form
In this article, community assessments of support for three levels of open adoption are examined, including two types of mediated adoption, fully disclosed adoption, and confidential adoption. Combining telephone survey data from a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents with 82 qualitative interviews, the authors report on community assessments of these levels of openness and the relevance of these results for other survey research conducte…
A Comparison of Biological and Adoptive Mothers and Fathers
Using in-depth qualitative interviews with 82 respondents, we examine the nature of beliefs and values about biological (birth) and adoptive parents. With a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents, we examine their prevalence in the larger population. We also consider how aspects of biological kinship, gender and actual parenting behaviour affect assessments respondents make of the emotional bonding that occurs between parents and children. …
Who Do I Look Like? Gaining a Sense of Self-Authenticity Through the Physical Reflections of Others
The question Who do I look like? rarely arises for individuals raised in a biological family context. In contrast, searching adoptees report an incomplete sense of physical self from not seeing their bodily traits reflected in biological relatives. Meeting birth relatives and matching physical characteristics creates a stronger sense of self-authenticity. An analysis of these social processes provides a unique opportunity to contribute to the sym…
Adoption, Identity and Kinship
In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by …
Adoption Policy and Special Needs Children
Foreword by Peter C. Winkler Preface An Advocate's Perspective by Judith Anderson Racial Aspects of the Move to Adoption by Sherrie A. Kossoudji The Adoption of Older Children by Elizabeth S. Cole Disabled Children and Adoption by Ann Coyne Adoption Disruption by Marianne Berry Adoption Recruitment Meeting the Needs of Waiting Children by Drenda S. Lakin and Linda Whitfield Variations in State Adoption Assistance Laws by Alice Bussiere Federal Fi…
The Stranger Who Bore Me
Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma
Adoption occurs in all societies. Yet the form of the adoption process differs according to a society's structural constraints and the expressed needs of that society's members. For example, traditional societies usually arrange informal adoptions in which children are placed with other kin (Benet, 1976; McDade, 1991). In such cases, regular interaction between kin members ensures adopted children's knowledge of their birth parents' identity and …
Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma
Adoption occurs in all societies. Yet the form of the adoption process differs according to a society's structural constraints and the expressed needs of that society's members. For example, traditional societies usually arrange informal adoptions in which children are placed with other kin (Benet, 1976; McDade, 1991). In such cases, regular interaction between kin members ensures adopted children's knowledge of their birth parents' identity and …
A Comparison of Biological and Adoptive Mothers and Fathers
Using in-depth qualitative interviews with 82 respondents, we examine the nature of beliefs and values about biological (birth) and adoptive parents. With a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents, we examine their prevalence in the larger population. We also consider how aspects of biological kinship, gender and actual parenting behaviour affect assessments respondents make of the emotional bonding that occurs between parents and children. …
Who Do I Look Like? Gaining a Sense of Self-Authenticity Through the Physical Reflections of Others
The question Who do I look like? rarely arises for individuals raised in a biological family context. In contrast, searching adoptees report an incomplete sense of physical self from not seeing their bodily traits reflected in biological relatives. Meeting birth relatives and matching physical characteristics creates a stronger sense of self-authenticity. An analysis of these social processes provides a unique opportunity to contribute to the sym…
Finding My Place
This study describes how essentialist notions of motherhood infl uence adoption reunion outcomes. The data analysis is based primarily on in-depth interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers. Collectively, the birth mothers perceived themselves to be the mothers of a child lost to them through adoption. Reunion contact jeopardized this perception when the mothers met adopted adults who did not accept their mothering overtures. Continued contact mea…
Open Adoption as a Family Form
In this article, community assessments of support for three levels of open adoption are examined, including two types of mediated adoption, fully disclosed adoption, and confidential adoption. Combining telephone survey data from a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents with 82 qualitative interviews, the authors report on community assessments of these levels of openness and the relevance of these results for other survey research conducte…
Unwed motherhood, adoption reunion and stigmatized social identities
Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers show they had been stigmatized for their unwed motherhood and hid this identity to protect self from social censure. The public exposure created by reunion contact with their adult placed children required new ways to manage this stigma trait. The women engaged in a process of identity talk supported by their understanding of altered perceptions of female sexuality and a…
Reinforcing the Motherhood Ideal
Dans cet article, les auteures étudient l'idée que les gens se font des méres biologiques qui transmettent leurs droits parentaux à des parents adoptifs. Des différences selon les sexes ressortent de la description des méres biologiques qui élaborent un plan d'adoption et des explications de leurs raisons pour avoir choisi le placement dans un foyer adoptif. Lorsqu'une femme élève son enfant biologique, les conceptions sur l'im‐portance inhérente…
Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma
Adoption occurs in all societies. Yet the form of the adoption process differs according to a society's structural constraints and the expressed needs of that society's members. For example, traditional societies usually arrange informal adoptions in which children are placed with other kin (Benet, 1976; McDade, 1991). In such cases, regular interaction between kin members ensures adopted children's knowledge of their birth parents' identity and …
The Stranger Who Bore Me
Adoption, Identity and Kinship
In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by …
Adoption Policy and Special Needs Children
Foreword by Peter C. Winkler Preface An Advocate's Perspective by Judith Anderson Racial Aspects of the Move to Adoption by Sherrie A. Kossoudji The Adoption of Older Children by Elizabeth S. Cole Disabled Children and Adoption by Ann Coyne Adoption Disruption by Marianne Berry Adoption Recruitment Meeting the Needs of Waiting Children by Drenda S. Lakin and Linda Whitfield Variations in State Adoption Assistance Laws by Alice Bussiere Federal Fi…
Who Do I Look Like? Gaining a Sense of Self-Authenticity Through the Physical Reflections of Others
The question Who do I look like? rarely arises for individuals raised in a biological family context. In contrast, searching adoptees report an incomplete sense of physical self from not seeing their bodily traits reflected in biological relatives. Meeting birth relatives and matching physical characteristics creates a stronger sense of self-authenticity. An analysis of these social processes provides a unique opportunity to contribute to the sym…
A Comparison of Biological and Adoptive Mothers and Fathers
Using in-depth qualitative interviews with 82 respondents, we examine the nature of beliefs and values about biological (birth) and adoptive parents. With a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents, we examine their prevalence in the larger population. We also consider how aspects of biological kinship, gender and actual parenting behaviour affect assessments respondents make of the emotional bonding that occurs between parents and children. …
Open Adoption as a Family Form
In this article, community assessments of support for three levels of open adoption are examined, including two types of mediated adoption, fully disclosed adoption, and confidential adoption. Combining telephone survey data from a Canada-wide random sample of 706 respondents with 82 qualitative interviews, the authors report on community assessments of these levels of openness and the relevance of these results for other survey research conducte…
Reinforcing the Motherhood Ideal
Dans cet article, les auteures étudient l'idée que les gens se font des méres biologiques qui transmettent leurs droits parentaux à des parents adoptifs. Des différences selon les sexes ressortent de la description des méres biologiques qui élaborent un plan d'adoption et des explications de leurs raisons pour avoir choisi le placement dans un foyer adoptif. Lorsqu'une femme élève son enfant biologique, les conceptions sur l'im‐portance inhérente…
Nelson, Margaret. The Social Economy of Single Motherhood
Nelson, Margaret. THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: RAISING CHILDREN IN RURAL AMERICA." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 38(4), pp. 664–665
Birth mother grief and the challenge of adoption reunion contact
A large body of work exists on the grief expressed by birth mothers over the loss of their children to adoption. Less is known about the grief emotions that surface when these women are contacted by adopted adults who seek contact relationships. The themes of mourning, grief, and bereavement that emerged in the qualitative interview data of 33 reunited birth mothers indicate more attention be given to these social psychological processes. Suggest…
Finding My Place
This study describes how essentialist notions of motherhood infl uence adoption reunion outcomes. The data analysis is based primarily on in-depth interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers. Collectively, the birth mothers perceived themselves to be the mothers of a child lost to them through adoption. Reunion contact jeopardized this perception when the mothers met adopted adults who did not accept their mothering overtures. Continued contact mea…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 1
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers are called to engage in political activity at the micro, mezzo and macro levels for the advancement of social justice and human rights.NASW has mechanisms in place to aggregate the voices of individual social workers through political activity.Drawing on a model of civic voluntarism, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of political activity on decisions by Texas social workers to jo…
Unwed motherhood, adoption reunion and stigmatized social identities
Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers show they had been stigmatized for their unwed motherhood and hid this identity to protect self from social censure. The public exposure created by reunion contact with their adult placed children required new ways to manage this stigma trait. The women engaged in a process of identity talk supported by their understanding of altered perceptions of female sexuality and a…
Child Welfare and Adoption (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (4 works) · Kinship (3 works) · Perception (3 works)