Adoption Quarterly
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 10926755

Publisher: Routledge

History: 1997-2021

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Adoption Quarterly is an unparalleled forum for examining the issues related to adoption as viewed from a lifespan perspective and of the psychological and social meanings of the word family. This international multidisciplinary journal features conceptual and empirical work as well as book reviews from the fields of the social sciences humanities biological sciences law and social policy.In addition to examining ethical biological financial social and psychological adoption issues Adoption Quarterly addresses continuity in adoption issues that are important to both practitioners and researchers such as negotiation of birth and adoptive family contact identity formation in the context of adoption adoption as a premier paradigm for studying the interactions of nature nurture and the lifelong development of the adoptee adoptee adjustment now viewed in a lifespan perspective adjustment issues for birth and adoptive parents.Despite the importance of adoption in family formation and its considerable value as a paradigm for scientific study there is no other scholarly journal specializing in this field. By maintaining a consistently high standard of scholarship Adoption Quarterly helps stimulate relevant research and develop more practicebased and empirically sound principles.