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Openness and Contact in Foster Care Adoptions: An Eight‐Year Follow‐Up *
Author(s) -
Frasch Karie M.,
Brooks Devon,
Barth Richard P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00435.x
Subject(s) - openness to experience , psychology , foster care , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , social psychology , nursing , medicine , pathology
This study examines openness and contact in 231 foster care adoptions from the California Long‐Range Adoption Study (CLAS), an eight‐year prospective longitudinal study. Data were collected using three waves of mailed questionnaires completed by the adoptive parent. Findings indicate that while the practice of openness continues to evolve for most families, there is remarkable stability in levels of contact and communication with the child's biological family, especially in the last four years of the study.