A01=Grace Po-Chee Ko
Adoption
adoption disclosure issues
Adoption Ordinance
Adoption Profile
Adoption Social Workers
Adoption Stresses
Adoption Triangle
Adoption Unit
Adoptive Children
Adoptive Families
Adoptive Parenthood
Author_Grace Po-Chee Ko
Birth Father
Birth Mother
Birth Parent Contact
Birth Parents
Category=JB
Category=JKSF
child welfare research
Chinese Adopters
Chinese adoption practices
Chinese Adoptive Parents
Cross-cultural Adopters
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
family adjustment stress
Family Service Centres
Genealogical Bewilderment
Grace Po-Chee Ko
Hong Kong
Inracial Adopters
Mutual Aid Organization
non-relative adoption case study Hong Kong
Nonrelative Adoption
Nontraditional Adoption
Parent-child
parental entitlement theory
Permanency Planning
post-adoption support services
Social Welfare Department
Statistics
Transracial Adoption
Product details
- ISBN 9780367249144
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This title was first published in 2001. A systematic study of non-relative adoption in Hong Kong. It examines the changing profile of non-relative adoption between 1987 and 1993, from the author's analysis of 486 case files. Characteristics of the adoptive parents, adopted children and their birth parents are presented in descriptive statistics. Three predictors of adoption stresses are identified. Adjustment in adoption and threat to parental entitlement were positively related to adoption stress; parental education was negatively related to it. Apart from being more stressful, Chinese adopters were found to be significantly different from non-Chinese for having a lower level of acknowledgement of difference. They are more worrisome over the relationship with birth parents, are less ready to reveal adoption, have better adoptive parent-child relationship, and possess higher levels of personal qualities. The findings of the study suggest that a post-legal adoption service is urgently needed.
