育て親家族におけるテリングの効果についての探索的検討

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Telling is the continuous effort by adoptive parents to make their adopted children aware of the presence of their biological parents and their roots. I conducted home visit interviews with the adoptive mother and explored variations in telling practices by adoptive parents and considered, from a developmental perspective, their childs understanding of the existence of biological parents different from the adoptive parents. The main findings were as follows: (1) telling practices by adoptive parents change from one-way to reciprocal communication as the childs abilities grow; (2) the adopted childs experiences of having younger siblings or meeting with the birth mother motivate the childs own understanding of the content of telling; (3) there is a certain period in which the adopted child dislikes telling, and (4) the more the adopted child becomes sensitive to the acknowledgment of his/her being different from others, the more social attitudes become complicated.
2011-03-31