Ideals of parenting and childhood in the contact zone of intercountry adoption
Assessment of second-time adoption applicants in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3110273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Lindgren (0000-0002-4427-3321, Linköping University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 474-489 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568214566077 |
| OpenAlex | W2151580324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
Intercountry adoption is a global phenomenon, a contact zone in which notions of 'good parents' and 'the child's best interest' are negotiated. This article explores what norms of parenthood and childhood Sweden, as a receiving country, communicates in the global flow of children and ideas. Adoption assessment reports are examined, with a focus on how adoption applicants are portrayed and how 'good parents' are thereby constructed. The analysis demonstrates how certain qualities, for example, being loving, self-sacrificing and child-centred, are ascribed to applicants, and how the presentation of 'good parents' also defines a proper childhood
Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Presentation (obstetrics · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
Assessing and assisting prospective adoptive parents
Changing notions of “good parents” and “the child’s best interest”
Changing notions of “good parents” and “the child’s best interest”
Constructing future parental suitability
It shouldn’t just be these kinds of sunshine stories’
Displays of parent suitability in adoption assessment reports
Attachment as Affective Assimilation
Children helping children
Transforming 'Swedish Dads
The Construction of Professional Discourse
The Kinning of Foreigners
Globalization and Families
Assessing and displaying suitability for adoptive parenthood
Ideology and choice between work and care
Harmonious parents and their preschool children
The origins of attachment theory
The Social and Material Life of Colonial Hotels
Contact Zones, Third Spaces, and the Act of Interpretation
Everyday Moments
Children Need Their Parents More Than a Pizza in the Fridge
Adoption and the Guatemalan Journey To American Parenthood
Fixity and fluidity - circulations, children, and childhood
The Quest for a Child of One's Own
Deconstructing Family Time
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |