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  • Erityistä vanhemmuutta erityisille lapsille : Etelä-Afrikasta adoptoineiden vanhempien kokemuksia 
    Korsumäki, Johanna (2014)
    The target phenomenon of the study is the experiences of adoptive parenting and family life by those parents who has a child adopted from South Africa. The object of interest is the adoptive parenthood and the experience of the adoptive family's everyday life. In Finland the interest about international adoption is great. As a contact country, South Africa has steadily raised interest. My goal in this study together with the wide theory of adoptions and adoptive parents' personal experiences is to serve those parents who are considering participate to international adoption process and especially thinking to adopt a child from South Africa. The frame of reference of this research is qualitative and theory guiding. The theoretical background examines the nature of the adoption process, the various stages of the process, as well as jurisprudence and ethics through the process as part of the protection of children. The approach in this study is a narrative. I gathered the research data by writing quest for the adoptive parents. The data consists the total of the six subjective reports written by six adoptive parents whose children where born in South Africa. The study revealed how the adoption is a very strongly legal process which is closely linked to the authorities' actions. During the process of adoption, the adoptive applicants are required to make a number of informed choices. During this process related to every party – both children and parents – there are always present the changes, losses, and hopes. While examining and comparing the data it became clear how an adoptive parenting is pretty much the same as a biological parenthood. Despite this, the adoptive parenting is always at the same a time different and special. The challenges of the spectrum appears to be mostly: adoptive children with special needs and responding to those special needs, attachment relationship and sometimes in different ways racist encounters.
  • Kiintymyssuhteen häiriintymiseen viittaavien oireiden ja lapsen taustaan liittyvien tekijöiden väliset yhteydet Suomeen kansainvälisesti adoptoitujen lasten aineistossa 
    Lappalainen, Petra-Sif Markkusdottir (2015)
    Objective. International adoption concerns large groups of children each year. International adoptees often have developmental delays or deficits in the social and physical domains due to depriving early living conditions. The atypical development of attachment has been of special interest in the population of adopted children. The purpose of the present study is to explore the possible connections between an adoptee's background factors and the symptoms or behaviors indicating disordered attachment. This study is part of the ongoing Finnish Adoption Study. Procedure. The chosen background variables were adoptee's gender, continent of origin, the number and form of placements before adoption, and adoptee's age at adoption. Symptoms of disordered attachment were evaluated with a questionnaire developed for this study. The items represented the two types of attachment disorder, disinhibited and inhibited, defined in the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10. In addition, two items concerned clingy behavior. Adoptive parents filled out the questionnaire as a part of a larger questionnaire concerning the background and health of the adoptee in general (n=1450). The questionnaire was mailed to all the parents who had adopted a child internationally between the years 1985 and 2007. The relationships between the variables were investigated using linear regression and two-way analysis of variance. Results and conclusions. The results showed that adoptee's gender, continent of origin and adoptee's age at adoption were connected to disinhibited symptoms. Living in a single orphanage and the continents Asia and Africa were related to inhibited symptoms. Only Asia of the explored variables was related to clingy behavior. Based on the results it was concluded that different kind of attachment related behavior problems might have different kind of developmental paths. The results of this study can be utilized in future research to find out more detailed information about the development of disordered attachment behavior in adopted children. The results are important for the provision of well-informed information to adoptive parents.

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