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Child Protection and Family Justice

The adoption triangle revisited

Wed, 15 June 2005

A study of adoption, search and reunion experiences

This Foundation-funded study is the first in the UK to investigate the experiences of both birth mothers who initiated a search for the child that they placed for adoption and birth mothers who have not searched, but were contacted by the adopted person. The book gives a comprehensive picture of the adoption experience and the impact and outcome of the search and reunion process for all the key players: birth mothers, adopted people and adoptive parents.

The authors of the study are: John Triseliotis, Professor Emeritus and a child care and research consultant (previously at the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde); Julia Feast, Policy, Research and Development Consultant at BAAF (formerly at The Children's Society) and Fiona Kyle, research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

This study builds on the findings from previous studies funded by the Foundation, "Adoption, Search and Reunion: The long-term experience of adopted adults" and the Adoption Reunion Handbook

A summary of the recent study can be downloaded here and further information about all three publications here.

Last Updated Mon, 20 June 2005