Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

Structural open adoption has been beneficial to adoptees in integrating their birth heritage and identity. Adoptive parents also may sometimes seek out others who are neither related biologically nor through partnership to support their child in developing an integrated sense of identity. To what ex...

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Main Authors: Pedro Alexandre Costa, Alessio Gubello, Fiona Tasker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Genealogy
Subjects:
open adoption
LGB parents
intentional kinship
foster care
family relationships
family representations
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/4/85

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