Overview
Adoption refers to the process through which someone assumes the parental rights and responsibilities of another biological or legal parent. Although adoption involves young children more than adolescents, it is relevant to the adolescent period in many ways, not the least of which are the effects adoptions can have on adolescents’ development, such as their sense of identity when they have been adopted or the effect of placing their own children for adoption. Different models have been used to examine the effects of adoption, but there still remains remarkably little robust research investigating adoption’s effects on adolescents.
Adoption
Adoption refers to the end of a process through which an adult formally assumes the guardianship of a child and incurs the rights and responsibilities of a parent. Adoption is more than guardianship, with guardianship being designed for the care of the young and adoption effecting a permanent change in status that requires formal legal...
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Levesque, R.J.R. (2016). Adoption. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_754-2
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