The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as a field of
study. Three historical trends in adoption research are identified: the first focusing on risk in …

For the past 50 years, adults who were adopted during infancy have been research
participants for empirical studies with goals ranging from twin studies for heritability, to …

Noted for its accessibility, this text--now revised and updated to reflect a decade of advances
in the field--examines how attitudes and beliefs about gender profoundly shape all aspects …

The present study examined adoption-related family conversation as a mediator of the
association between adoptive parents' facilitation of contact with birth relatives and …

This study examines international adoptees and factors associated with searching for birth
parents. A total of 1,417 international adoptees in The Netherlands, aged 24 to 30 years …

The formation of an adoption information gap was examined for a group of 169 emerging
adults (M= 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants. Participants completed interviews and …

The Adoption Curiosity Pathway (ACP) model was used to test the potential mediating effect
of curiosity on adoption information-seeking in a sample of 143 emerging adult adoptees …

Being adopted and becoming a parent are both highly significant events in the life course.
How adopted people represent adoption and parenthood in their life stories is the focus of …

Grounded in the communication theory of identity, the present study explores how adoptive
identity—an individual's understanding of what it means to be an adopted person—is …

Adoption is frequently invoked as a universal social good—an uncomplicated win for
adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents alike—that obviates the need for abortion. As …