University of Washington Tacoma, United States of America.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Aug;130(Pt 2):105184. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105184. Epub 2021 Jun 30.
Media stories over the past decade have sensationalized cases of intercountry adoption discontinuity, a phenomenon largely missing from the research literature.
This study sought to understand how intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity histories experience legal, relational, and residential permanency losses through the framework of ambiguous loss and trauma.
Twenty intercountry adoptees in the United States who experienced adoption discontinuity as minor children.
Participants were recruited through social media sites and professional and informal organizations serving intercountry adoptees.
Participants described multiple experiences with legal, residential, and relational permanency losses often in multiple combinations, multiple times, and in multiple settings. Participants also experienced racial, ethnic and cultural identity losses in addition to their permanency ruptures.
More research on the lived experiences of intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity histories is needed. Adoptees experience trauma in their pre-adoptive histories as well as in the adoption process itself and need adoptive parents skilled in trauma-informed parenting. In addition, there is a need for robust trauma-informed support for adoptees throughout their lifetime.
过去十年的媒体报道夸大了跨国收养中断的案例，而这种现象在研究文献中基本缺失。
本研究旨在通过模糊性损失和创伤的框架，理解有跨国收养中断经历的收养儿童如何经历法律、关系和居住永久性丧失。
20 名在美国经历过跨国收养中断的未成年收养儿童。
通过社交媒体网站以及为跨国收养儿童服务的专业和非正式组织招募参与者。
参与者描述了多次法律、居住和关系永久性丧失的经历，通常是多种组合、多次和多种情况。参与者除了永久性破裂外，还经历了种族、民族和文化认同的丧失。
需要对有跨国收养中断经历的收养儿童的生活经历进行更多研究。收养儿童在领养前的经历以及领养过程中都经历了创伤，他们需要有创伤知情育儿技能的养父母。此外，需要为收养儿童提供终生强有力的创伤知情支持。
