APS
2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023
Ambiguous Loss: How Birth Parents' Bereavement after Adoption Placement Affects Their Future Parenting
- Erick Perez
University of California Riverside - Misaki Natsuaki
University of California, Riverside - Jenae Neiderhiser
Pennsylvania State University - Daniel Shaw
University of Pittsburgh - Jody Ganiban
George Washington University - David Reiss
Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center - Leslie Leve
University of Oregon
Abstract
Birth parents who place their child for adoption often experience grief and loss. This study revealed birth mothers' grief following adoption was associated with poorer parenting and parent-child relationships toward another biological child they were rearing 7 years later. This effect was mitigated when birth mothers received high social support.
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