Talking about the Birth Family since the Beginning
The Communicative Openness in the New Adoptive Family
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15469299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandra Santona (0000-0002-0701-7118, University of Milano-Bicocca), Giacomo Tognasso (0000-0002-6108-4645, University of Milano-Bicocca, corresponding author), Carla Luisa Miscioscia (CIAI—Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia, 20142 Milan, Italy), Daniela Russo (0000-0002-6961-3695, CIAI—Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia, 20142 Milan, Italy), Laura Gorla (0000-0001-5939-3134, University of Milano-Bicocca) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1203-1203 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph19031203 |
| PMID | 35162222 |
| OpenAlex | W4207061179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
Communicative openness within the adoptive family changes over time and helps the child explore his/her history. We aimed to evaluate whether adoptive families communicate about specific adoption-related themes from the beginning of their lives as a family. We created an instrument to track the communication process during the first year of adoption, involving a sample of 537 internationally adopted children (313 males, 224 females, mean age of adoption: 4.9 years) at two time points: six (T1) and twelve (T2) months after adoption. Our results suggest that in the first year of placement, children express memories about the past but tend to not speak about their birth families. We discovered a significant difference (Wald test = 4.889; p = 0.027) in communication about the biological family between the two points. The presence of adoptive parents who speak about it impacts the child's questions about the past (exp (B) = 2.452, p = 0.006) and whether the child speaks about his/her biological family (exp (B) = 2.373; p = 0.017). Then, in the first year of adoption, the presence of an adoptive parent who communicates openly helps the child to ask questions and share his/her thoughts
Biology · Developmental psychology · Openness to experience · Sample (material · Sociology · Test (biology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Demography · Family and Disability Support Research · Family Support in Illness · Psychology · Social Psychology
Children's understanding of adoption
Searching for connection—Finding resolution
The Evolving Nature and Process of Foster Family Communication
The Role of Adoption Communicative Openness in Information Seeking Among Adoptees From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
Exploring the Narrative Process
Children's and parents' thoughts and feelings about adoption, birth culture identity and discrimination in families with internationally adopted children
Communicative Openness in Adoption, Knowledge of Culture of Origin, and Adoption Identity in Adolescents Adopted From Romania
Communicative Openness Within Adoptive Families
Transracial Adoptees
The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model
Children's Awareness of Adoption and Their Problem Behavior in Families with 7-Year-Old Internationally Adopted Children
Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally 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
The Experience of Adoption (2)
Open Adoption
Contact in Adoption
Post-Adoption Contact and Openness in Adoptive Parents' Minds
Adoption in the service of child protection
Family Structural Openness and Communication Openness as Predictors in the Adjustmentof Adopted Children
Process of adoption communication openness in adoptive families
Uncertainty management and adoptees' ambiguous loss of their birth parents
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |