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Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks

Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks ADOPTION QUARTERLY 2019, VOL. 22, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2019.1578038 INTRODUCTION Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks a b Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA; School of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA This special issue of Adoption Quarterly highlights recent longitudinal findings from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP), which began in the 1980s and has followed 169 birth mothers and 190 adoptive families (190 mothers, 190 fathers, 171 children, now adults) over four waves of data collection (30 years postplacement) to identify the effects of adoption over time for all parties involved. The original sample was recruited from 35 private adoption agencies in 23 different states across the United States. The lead authors (Grotevant & McRoy) of this special issue have published the initial findings in two books (Openness in Adoption: New Practices, New Issues [1988] and Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections [1998]), which highlighted the early findings related to outcomes for birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive families involved in MTARP. Subsequently, the project has published its empirical findings in more than 50 articles in refereed journals as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks

Grotevant, Harold D.; McRoy, Ruth G.
Adoption Quarterly , Volume 22 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2019
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ADOPTION QUARTERLY 2019, VOL. 22, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2019.1578038 INTRODUCTION Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks a b Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA; School of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA This special issue of Adoption Quarterly highlights recent longitudinal findings from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption...
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ADOPTION QUARTERLY 2019, VOL. 22, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2019.1578038 INTRODUCTION Beyond the Childhood Years: Openness in Adoptive Kinship Networks a b Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA; School of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA This special issue of Adoption Quarterly highlights recent longitudinal findings from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP), which began in the 1980s and has followed 169 birth mothers and 190 adoptive families (190 mothers, 190 fathers, 171 children, now adults) over four waves of data collection (30 years postplacement) to identify the effects of adoption over time for all parties involved. The original sample was recruited from 35 private adoption agencies in 23 different states across the United States. The lead authors (Grotevant & McRoy) of this special issue have published the initial findings in two books (Openness in Adoption: New Practices, New Issues [1988] and Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections [1998]), which highlighted the early findings related to outcomes for birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive families involved in MTARP. Subsequently, the project has published its empirical findings in more than 50 articles in refereed journals as

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