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Article: To tell or not to tell: Factors affecting adoptees' telling their adoptive parents about their search
- Article from:
- Child Welfare
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Transaction Inc. Jan 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This study identified adoption, family, and biographical variables that differentiated between adoptees who told or did not tell their adoptive parents about their search for their biological parents. Telling the adoptive mother and father were related to different combinations of variables. Adoptive family discussion of adoption, however, and the adoptees' feeling that their parents were open to discussion, were related to telling both adoptive parents. These findings lend support to the importance of adoptive family discussion and suggest that the feelings about adoption of adoptive mothers and adoptive fathers are seen by adoptees as being different.
Telling is the term used to describe ...