J. L. Hoopes, L. Alexander, Paula F. Silver, G. Ober, Nancy Kirby
SUMMARY This research presents an in-depth study of ten-year adoption outcomes for 24 developmentally vulnerable African-American infants and toddlers and their parents. Overall the families reported feeling well bonded and satisfied with their children's progress, their family life, and the adoption experience. For the most part, the children were also doing reasonably well and had quite positive self esteem. This was despite the fact that some children had learning disabilities, some of the early adolescent males displayed oppositional social behavior, and some parents reported apparent contradictory perceptions of family cohesion and coping.
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SUMMARY This paper is a critique of a research program carried out by the Search Institute of Minnesota. The report, “Growing Up Adopted,” was printed and distributed by the organization itself, and accompanied by grandiose media claims. “The Largest Study Ever of Adoptive Families in the United States,” it promised to open new vistas on an old subject. Elegantly turned out, the 1994 report shows sets of data built on questionable research methods resulting in inapplicable if comforting conclusions. At the heart of the report is a section specifically directed to ideas and concepts derived from Kirk's work. It highlights the questionable methodology and misleading conclusions of the report as a whole. Whereas Part I of this critique deals with weaknesses in the Search Institute's current research, Part II looks back to data produced by an earlier research program carried out under the same auspices. A decade ago similar problems as those posed in the current study had been explored there. Not only were si...
这篇论文是对明尼苏达搜索研究所开展的一个研究项目的评论。这份名为《被收养的成长》(Growing Up adoption)的报告是由该组织自己印刷和分发的，并伴随着一些浮夸的媒体声明。“美国有史以来规模最大的收养家庭研究”，它承诺为一个古老的主题开辟新的前景。1994年的报告优雅地显示，建立在有问题的研究方法上的数据集导致了不适用的结论，尽管令人欣慰。报告的核心部分是专门针对柯克工作中产生的想法和概念的部分。它突出了整个报告的可疑方法和误导性结论。这篇评论的第一部分处理了搜索研究所当前研究的弱点，而第二部分则回顾了在同一赞助下进行的早期研究项目所产生的数据。十年前，与当前研究中提出的问题类似的问题也在那里得到了探讨。不仅是我……
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SUMMARY The meaning of the words “bonding” and “attachment” as terms related to human connections are examined from an historical perspective and as important tools in the field of adoption. For over three decades there has been confusion between the two words and about the processes which they represented. Because adoption, by definition, changes the usual patterns of family connections, it is especially important that there be common agreement about terminology. Clinical observations have led to the discrete definitions proposed here. The words are defined, for utilitarian purposes, in a way that underscores the qualitative differences. The result is a tool that can improve placement decisions, help resolve controversial custody cases, reduce tensions among the families to which an adopted child has connections, and provide concrete assistance to children in their efforts to learn how to make significant attachments.
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This article contrasts the journal writings of Dorothy Thompson, a woman on welfare, with the official agency case records and an oral tradition handed down by successive caseworkers. The record and oral tradition portray Dorothy as an undeserving, offensive, neglectful mother while Dorothy's journal reveals a strong-willed and valiant woman struggling with circumstances she cannot understand. The clash between the official ideologies contained in the case record and Dorothy's lived experience is startling and very much to the detriment of Dorothy and her family. The power is in the social welfare system and not with Dorothy, and her life becomes a documented tragedy, though her humanity endures and makes her story bearable and sometimes uplifting
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This article presents a composite biography of an orphaned girl and her mother in Medieval London. Though the mother was sound in mind and body, she had no control over her daughters inheritance and place of residence. In addition, her underage daughter was married without her consent. The composite biography can bring to life the otherwise dry renditions of families experiences that are present in court records and other historical documents.
{"title":"The composite biography as a methodological tool for the study of childhood in history","authors":"B. Hanawalt","doi":"10.1300/J002V24N03_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002V24N03_05","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a composite biography of an orphaned girl and her mother in Medieval London. Though the mother was sound in mind and body, she had no control over her daughters inheritance and place of residence. In addition, her underage daughter was married without her consent. The composite biography can bring to life the otherwise dry renditions of families experiences that are present in court records and other historical documents.","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1997-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002V24N03_05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66462060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I describe how I used the computer to develop a grounded theory of the social meaning of money and information. In doing this, I take up Bryman and Burgesss (1994) challenge for qualitative researchers to articulate as fully as possible the processes associated with data analysis (p. 224). This account is written in the active voice using the personal pronoun, for I am acknowledging agency (Van Maanen, 1979, p. 249) in the transformation of data to theory.
在这篇论文中，我描述了我是如何使用计算机来发展金钱和信息的社会意义的基础理论的。在此过程中，我接受了Bryman和Burgess(1994)对定性研究人员的挑战，即“尽可能充分地阐明与数据分析相关的过程”(第224页)。这篇文章是用主动语态写的，使用人称代词，因为我承认在数据到理论的转化过程中能动性(Van Maanen, 1979, p. 249)。
{"title":"Money, marriage and the computer","authors":"Supriya Singh","doi":"10.1300/J002V24N03_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002V24N03_08","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I describe how I used the computer to develop a grounded theory of the social meaning of money and information. In doing this, I take up Bryman and Burgesss (1994) challenge for qualitative researchers to articulate as fully as possible the processes associated with data analysis (p. 224). This account is written in the active voice using the personal pronoun, for I am acknowledging agency (Van Maanen, 1979, p. 249) in the transformation of data to theory.","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1997-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002V24N03_08","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66462179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author uses her experiences with death and bereavement to select her research problem and to become a sensitive collaborator and listener with others who had the same experience of the loss of a loved one. From deep listening and opening of her heart to colleagues she began the integration of personal, empirical, theoretical, practical and spiritual knowledge into her research. A reconceptualization of maternal bereavement occurred. It is an open, fluid, dialectical process of change.
{"title":"Reflexivity and Qualitative Family Research:: Insider's Perspectives in Bereaving the Loss of a Child","authors":"Elizabeth Farnsworth","doi":"10.1300/J002V24N03_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002V24N03_09","url":null,"abstract":"The author uses her experiences with death and bereavement to select her research problem and to become a sensitive collaborator and listener with others who had the same experience of the loss of a loved one. From deep listening and opening of her heart to colleagues she began the integration of personal, empirical, theoretical, practical and spiritual knowledge into her research. A reconceptualization of maternal bereavement occurred. It is an open, fluid, dialectical process of change.","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1997-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002V24N03_09","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66462417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Proverbs, stories, and wives' tales have been used to teach, entertain and impart important cultural information for generations. For this paper, two colleagues and the author conducted ethnographic interviews with native Bahamians, primarily those residing on the family islands of Eleuthera and Harbour Island. They asked 56 informants, teenagers to octogenarians, to recall old sayings or tales which have been passed on to them over the years. Several hundred such sayings were recorded verbatim on tapes and in fieldnotes. Transcripts were analyzed to learn how Bahamian family life is depicted in wives' tales, proverbs, and other old sayings
{"title":"Bahamian Family Life as Depicted by Wives Tales and Other Old Sayings","authors":"Raeann R. Hamon","doi":"10.1300/J002V24N01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002V24N01_04","url":null,"abstract":"Proverbs, stories, and wives' tales have been used to teach, entertain and impart important cultural information for generations. For this paper, two colleagues and the author conducted ethnographic interviews with native Bahamians, primarily those residing on the family islands of Eleuthera and Harbour Island. They asked 56 informants, teenagers to octogenarians, to recall old sayings or tales which have been passed on to them over the years. Several hundred such sayings were recorded verbatim on tapes and in fieldnotes. Transcripts were analyzed to learn how Bahamian family life is depicted in wives' tales, proverbs, and other old sayings","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1997-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002V24N01_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66461282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article reports on an hermeneutic interpretive study of letters 18 women wrote to each other annually for 25 years, from 1968 to 1993. Six themes related to personal success and achieve- ment emerged from readings and systematic study of this set of more than 250 letters. The stories in these letters connect the private and public worlds; they communicate the events experienced, things hoped for, and things not done.
{"title":"Letters in the Attic","authors":"Joyce A. Walker","doi":"10.1300/J002v24n01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002v24n01_02","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on an hermeneutic interpretive study of letters 18 women wrote to each other annually for 25 years, from 1968 to 1993. Six themes related to personal success and achieve- ment emerged from readings and systematic study of this set of more than 250 letters. The stories in these letters connect the private and public worlds; they communicate the events experienced, things hoped for, and things not done.","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1997-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002v24n01_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66461140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a reflexive account of a study of the perceptions of young women of African-American descent on gender, race, and class. These abstractions come to life as these young women provide concrete instances of how these stratifications systems affect their everyday lives. The young informants clearly perceive the chal- lenges that these systems represent. In reporting the results of this study, the researcher is reflexive on two counts. First, she reflects upon the implications of her European-American heritage for the quality of her interviews and analysis. Second, she discusses the challenges of writing qualitative research reports. Not only was she inexperienced in how to write reports based on qualitative data, but she also felt constrained by the length restrictions from telling the whole story.
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