Dunbar Nora, van Dulmen Manfred H M, Ayers-Lopez Susan, Berge Jerica M, Christian Cinda, Gossman Ginger, Henney M Susan M, Mendenhall Tai J, Grotevant Harold D, McRoy Ruth G
Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Fam Process. 2006 Dec;45(4):449-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00182.x.
The purpose of this study was to reveal underlying processes in adoptive kinship networks that experienced increases or decreases in levels of openness during the child's adolescent years. Intensive case study analyses were conducted for 8 adoptive kinship networks (each including an adoptive mother, adoptive father, adopted adolescent, and birth mother), half of whom had experienced an increase in openness from indirect (mediated) to direct (fully disclosed) contact and half of whom had ceased indirect contact between Waves 1 and 2 of a longitudinal study. Adoptive mothers tended to be more involved in contact with the birth mother than were adoptive fathers or adopted adolescents. Members of adoptive kinship networks in which a decrease in level of contact took place had incongruent perspectives about who initiated the stop in contact and why the stop took place. Birth mothers were less satisfied with their degree of contact than were adoptive parents. Adults' satisfaction with contact was related to feelings of control over type and amount of interactions and permeability of family boundaries. In all adoptive kinship networks, responsibility for contact had shifted toward the adopted adolescent regardless of whether the adolescent was aware of this change in responsibility.
本研究的目的是揭示在孩子青少年时期亲密度水平有所上升或下降的收养亲属网络中的潜在过程。对8个收养亲属网络（每个网络包括养母、养父、被收养的青少年和生母）进行了深入的案例研究分析，其中一半网络的亲密度从间接（中介）接触增加到直接（完全披露）接触，另一半网络在纵向研究的第1波和第2波之间停止了间接接触。与养父或被收养的青少年相比，养母往往更多地参与与生母的接触。接触水平下降的收养亲属网络成员对于谁发起接触停止以及为何停止接触存在不一致的看法。生母对其接触程度的满意度低于养父母。成年人对接触的满意度与对互动类型和数量的控制感以及家庭边界的通透性有关。在所有收养亲属网络中，无论青少年是否意识到这种责任变化，接触的责任都已转向被收养的青少年。
