CD-51516
Adoption in the Digital Age.
Samuels, Julie.
Book
v, 138 p.
Copyright
Published: 2018
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This text explores what it means to be adopted in the digital age, how the Internet is impacting adoption and adopted children, reasons why individuals that have been adopted seek reunification despite the risk of rejection, and the need to consider proposals for more openness within adoption to manage contact between children who have been adopted and their biological families. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 discusses the use of the Internet in adoption fraud and the rehoming of children whose adoptions have broken down, and raises questions about the use of unregulated websites and the commodification of children that seek forever families. Chapter 3 considers the representation of adoption in the media in the United Kingdom, including adoption as portrayed on television, media portrayals of celebrity adoptions, and representations of provision care. The role of the Internet in family searches and reunifications is discussed in Chapter 4, and Chapter 5 explores the challenges and benefits of further openness in adoption in the United Kingdom. It notes that used appropriately and in moderation digital and social media technologies continue to enhance the relationships amongst members of the adoption triad and that the Internet may provide the child with further access to information about their biological past and reaffirm the child’s relationship with the adoptive family. The book concludes that for both the adoptive and biological family, adoption remains a set of relationships within which social and digital media technologies continue to mediate, strengthen, and threaten. Numerous references.
Keywords:
adoption; adopted children; Internet; social media; open adoption; United Kingdom; REUNIONS; SEARCH FOR BIRTH PARENTS