Parenthood and Open Adoption An Interpretative Phenomenological Anal
This book explores what it is like to be involved in contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view. The author’s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological analysis of a
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Parenthood and Open Adoption
Mandi MacDonald
Parenthood and Open Adoption An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Mandi MacDonald School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-57644-6 ISBN 978-1-137-57645-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57645-3
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am very grateful to the adoptive parents who took part in this study. They took time out of their busy working lives and hectic family schedules to share their stories of parenthood with a thoughtfulness and commitment that surpassed my expectations. All of the participants spoke from their wealth of parenting wisdom garnered through the often challenging experiences of day-to-day family life. On a personal level, as a parent, I found many of their accounts both humbling and inspirational. My very great thanks go to my colleagues, Dr Dominic McSherry and Dr Greg Kelly at Queens University Belfast for their supervision of the research and their unwavering encouragement and enthusiasm. My thanks also to my social work colleagues, in particular to Frances Nicholson for helping me bridge the gap between practice and research and to Priscilla McLoughlin for enthusiastically providing opportunities to share the study with practitioners. I am grateful to the social work staff in the Health and Social Care Trusts who facilitated the recruitment of participants and who encouraged me with their interest in the project. I am grateful to
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