Research

Research and Reports

OA&FS Client Study 02-03
This study focuses on the overall adoption satisfaction and levels of collaboration between birthmothers and adoptive parents, along with the impact these relationships have on the emotional intelligence of the children. Click here to view the study.
Adoptive Parent Survey
Open Adoption & Family Services distributed a survey to adoptive parents in 2001. The purpose of the survey was to clarify specific challenges adoptive parents, birthparents and adoptees experienced and resolved over the years; to determine characteristics of long-term open adoption relationships; and to measure adoptive parents’ satisfaction with their adoption experience. Click Here for more information.
National Studies
Adolescent Outcomes:
A follow-up study, "Adoptive Families: Longitudinal Outcomes for Adolescents," looked at 190 adoptive families between 1987 and 2000. The children who were ages 4 to 12 in the first survey were ages 12 to 18 in this survey. A major finding of principal investigators Harold D. Grotevant, Ph.D., and Ruth G. McRoy, PhD., was that "collaboration in relationships between a child's adoptive parents and birth parents ... predicts positive socioemotional development for the child."
Annual reports
Each year Open Adoption and family services publishes a report of activities, contributors and volunteers.
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