‘Writing about our adoption’: A qualitative study on intercountry adoptive parents’ narratives during the first post-adoption year

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Elena Canzi ◽  
Sara Molgora ◽  
Laura Ferrari ◽  
Sonia Ranieri ◽  
Lavinia Mescieri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
Child Narratives ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Family Variables ◽  
First Time

Intercountry adoption requires adoptive parents to assume their parenthood as well as to acknowledge the cultural and ethnic origins of their child. Narratives are effective means to help individuals cope with non-normative transitions, including adoption, as they allow them to make sense of and legitimise their experiences. This qualitative study sought to extend knowledge about the value of using narrative methods with adoptive families to explore how the language they employ determines the ways in which they perceive situations and vice versa. It uses the word-driven textual analysis software T-LAB to identify key topics highlighted by parents and analyse them in relation to specific variables. Child characteristics, such as gender, age at adoption and birth country, and family variables, such as mother’s and father’s narratives and first or not-first parenting experience, were considered. From the 37 narratives sampled, those parents adopting from Asia and Eastern Europe, mothers and first-time parents faced the most challenges.

scholarly journals “I’m More Than Just Adopted”: Stories of Genealogy in Intercountry Adoptive Families

Genealogy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Sarah Richards
Keyword(s):  
Hague Convention ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Birth Country ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Birth Family

In contrast to the historical ‘blank slate’ approach to adoption, current policy places significant emphasis on providing children with knowledge; family history; biological connections; stories, a genealogy upon which to establish an authentic identity. The imperative for this complex, and often incomplete, genealogy is also explicit within the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption established in 1993 to ensure that intercountry adopted children will be provided with a genealogical ‘heritage’. Yet, despite the recurring dominance of this approach, ‘heritage’ remains an ambiguous dictum which holds the expectation that adopted children should have access to any available birth/first family information and acquire cultural competence about an often distant and removed birth country. Providing such heritage becomes the responsibility of intercountry adoptive parents. It is therefore unsurprising that this role has become part of how intercountry adoptive parents perform and display their parenting and family practices before and after adoption (Richards 2014a; 2018). Such family work is explicit in the stories that parents and children coconstruct about birth family, abandonment, China, and the rights of adopted children to belong first and foremost to a birth country. Using qualitative data provided by a social worker, eleven girls aged between five and twelve, and their parents, this article explores the role and changing significance of narratives as familial strategies for delivering such heritage obligations. Outlined in this discussion is the compulsion to provide a genealogical heritage by adoptive parents which can ultimately be resisted by their daughters as they seek alternative and changing narratives through which to construct their belongings and identities.

Anisotropic Elasticity

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. T. C. Ting
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Elastic Constants ◽  
Piezoelectric Materials ◽  
Anisotropic Materials ◽  
Anisotropic Elasticity ◽  
Stress Singularities ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
First Time

Anisotropic Elasticity offers for the first time a comprehensive survey of the analysis of anisotropic materials that can have up to twenty-one elastic constants. Focusing on the mathematically elegant and technically powerful Stroh formalism as a means to understanding the subject, the author tackles a broad range of key topics, including antiplane deformations, Green's functions, stress singularities in composite materials, elliptic inclusions, cracks, thermo-elasticity, and piezoelectric materials, among many others. Well written, theoretically rigorous, and practically oriented, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers alike.

Healthcare and Terrorism: The Lebanese Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Nooreddine Iskandar ◽  
Tatiana Rahbany ◽  
Ali Shokor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background: Due to the common instability caused by political and security issues, Lebanese hospitals have experienced acts of terrorism multiple times. The most recent Beirut Explosion even forced several hospitals to cease operations for the first time in decades—but studies show the preparedness levels for such attacks in similar countries are low. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore the experience of Lebanese hospitals with terrorist attacks. Methods: This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders to assess their experience with terrorist bombings. Data was analyzed using the thematic analysis method. Results: The researchers found that Lebanese hospitals vary greatly in their structures and procedures. Those differences are a function of 3 contextual factors: location, culture, and accreditation status. Hospitals found near ‘dangerous zones’ were more likely to be aware and to have better response to such events. A severe lack of communication, unity of command, and collaboration between stakeholders has made the process fragmented. Conclusion: The researchers recommend a larger role for the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in this process, and the creation of a platform where Lebanese organizations can share their experiences to improve preparedness and resilience of the Lebanese healthcare system in the face of terrorism.

FAMILIAS ADOPTIVAS DURANTE LA PANDEMIA: REFLEXIONES PRELIMINARES EN TORNO AL VÍNCULO FAMILIAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (49) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
maría inés Castro V ◽  
Carolina Correa ◽  
Valentina iaCobelli ◽  
alejandra martinez ◽  
jimena Vlastelica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Parental Role ◽  
Adoptive Families

In this article we will reflect on the possible implications that the pandemic and lockdown has brought upon adoptive families. Some adoptive parents have taken this time as an opportunity to meet and strengthen their bond with their children, others have perceived it as a learning experience. However, for many it has meant an increase of stress that interferes with their parental role. We reflect on the aspects that enhance a secure and protective bond in adoptive families, in which parents welcome their children and their emotions. Adoptive parents who are open to reflect on their own histories and their children’s, are emotionally more available to face the difficulties that life during the pandemic brings.

Public service or private affair? The application of ‘kinship by design’ to intercountry adoption in England

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1087-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Coalition Governments ◽  
The Status

This article examines the status of intercountry adoption (ICA) within adoption and family policy in England by analysing the extent to which the preventive ideals of ‘kinship by design’ are applied to ICA, particularly in the provision of adoption support. The discussion is set in the context of adoption reform under the New Labour and Coalition governments, broader family policy ideals of prevention and early intervention and state objectives in adoption, as well as global policy standards. This article argues that ‘kinship by design’ is not equally applied to intercountry adoptive families in England.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Group Therapy in Supporting Adoptive Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Shanika Lavi Wilson ◽  
Kristen DeGree ◽  
Christopher Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Adoption Research

Adopted children and their families have unique needs compared to non-adoptive families. Adoption research seeks to understand these unique needs and contribute to a growing field of adoption competent therapy. The purpose of this paper is to understand how adoption competent group therapy can benefit adoptive families, and provides analysis on secondary data collected in 2019 from pre and post measures for a weekly support group from post adoption program. The research included 8 participants who were adoptive parents of adolescent girls, and included quantitative and qualitative data about how parents and their children responded to the program. The questions covered a variety of topics regarding the child, adoptive parents, and the parent- child relationship as a while. The results showed that from a quantitative standpoint, minimal improvements were made after the group, but the qualitative data showed that the group provided numerous benefits for adoptive parents.

scholarly journals THE REGULATION OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Obiter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glynis van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
The State ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Director General ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Intercountry Adoption

In South Africa, the Director General of the DSD appoints the Central Authority. Applications for intercountry adoption are made to the Central Authority. The aim is to protect the best interests of children involved in the process of intercountry adoption. This task is of paramount importance. The Central Authority is also tasked with maintaining relationships and promoting cooperation among the competent authorities within the State to protect children and to achieve the objectives of the Convention. In addition, where an adoption takes place after the child has been transferred to the receiving State and the Central Authority of the receiving State is of the view that the continued placement of the child with the prospective adoptive parents is not in the best interests of the child, the Central Authority is required to take the necessary measures to protect such child. These measures include withdrawing the child from the prospective adoptive parents and arranging temporary care and a new placement for the child in consultation with the Central Authority of the State of origin. The Central Authority therefore acts as a “gatekeeper”, with all adoptions in-and-out of the country channelled through its checks. It fulfils an important function to eliminate practices which may violate the best interests of the child.

scholarly journals Efficacy of a spatial repellent for control of malaria in Indonesia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Din Syafruddin ◽  
Puji BS Asih ◽  
Ismail Ekoprayitno Rozi ◽  
Dendi Hadi Permana ◽  
Anggi Puspa Nur Hidayati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Effect ◽  
Protective Efficacy ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Placebo Control ◽  
Radical Cure ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Spatial Repellent ◽  
Cluster Randomized ◽  
First Time

AbstractA cluster randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to estimate protective efficacy of a spatial repellent against malaria infection at Sumba, Indonesia. Following radical cure in 1,341 children aged ≥ 6 months - ≤5 years in 24 clusters, households were given transfluthrin or placebo passive emanators (devices designed to release vaporized chemical). Monthly blood screening and biweekly human-landing mosquito catches were performed during 10-months baseline (June 2015 to March 2016) and a 24-month intervention period (April 2016 to April 2018). Screening detected 164 first-time infections and an accumulative total of 459 infections in 667 subjects in placebo-control households; and 134 first-time and 253 accumulative total infections among 665 subjects in active intervention households. The 24-cluster protective effect of 27.7% and 31.3%, for time to first-event and overall (total new) infections, respectively, was not statistically significant. Purportedly, this was due in part to zero to low incidence in some clusters, undermining the ability to detect a protective effect. Subgroup analysis of 19 clusters where at least one infection occurred during baseline showed 33.3% (p-value = 0.083) and 40.9% (p-value = 0.0236, statistically significant at the 1-sided 5% significance level) protective effect to first-infection and overall infections, respectively. Among 12 moderate-to high-risk clusters, a statistically significant decrease on infection by intervention was detected (60% protective efficacy). Primary entomological analysis of impact was inconclusive. While this study suggests spatial repellents prevent malaria, additional evidence is required to demonstrate the product class provides an operationally feasible and effective means of reducing malaria transmission.

scholarly journals Detection Probability Analysis of True Random Coding Photon Counting Lidar

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
Yang Yu ◽  
Zhangjun Wang ◽  
Kuntai Ma ◽  
Chao Chen ◽  
Xiufen Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Detection Probability ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Photon Number ◽  
Photon Counting ◽  
Sequence Length ◽  
Random Coding ◽  
Working Principle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

With the wide application of lidar in the future, the problem of crosstalk between lidars will become more serious. True random coding photon counting lidar with high anti-crosstalk ability will play an important role in solving this problem. In this paper, based on the working principle of Gm-APD, the detection probability theoretical model of true random coding photon counting lidar is built, and the impact of jitter on detection probability is considered for the first time. The influence of mean echo photon number, mean pulse count density, sequence length and pulse width on detection probability is analyzed. Monte Carlo simulation and experimental results are highly consistent with the theoretical model, which proves the correctness of the detection probability theoretical model. This theoretical model provides an effective means to evaluate the system performance.

scholarly journals Parenting adopted children and supporting adoptive parents: Messages from research

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Parent Support ◽  
Adoptive Parent ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

This article considers adoption from the perspective of parents, especially the strategies that they employ to enhance attachments and build positive parent-child relationships. The article draws particularly on recent New Zealand research regarding intercountry adoptive parenting, as well as overseas literature on good adoptive parenting practice generally in domestic and intercountry adoption. It also considers the research on methods of supporting parents who adopt and whether there are gaps in legislation, policy or practice in New Zealand that could be closed by borrowing from good examples in the literature, and, or current practice examples. The author is an adoptive parent of Russian-born children and is actively involved in adoptive parent support networks.

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