Adoption and Fostering, 35(3), Autumn 2011, pp.60-67.
Publisher:
Sage
Domestic adoption in Greece is permissible through two avenues - adoptions through state institutions and by private agreement. However, both have been subject to criticism because of the delays involved and a system that fails to prevent illegal activities. This article presents findings from a case-based study that explored concerns about the Greek domestic adoption system. Legal, policy The article concludes that Greece must go further to regulate domestic adoption, impose stricter sanctions and prevent intermediaries from accepting financial gain from the process.
Domestic adoption in Greece is permissible through two avenues - adoptions through state institutions and by private agreement. However, both have been subject to criticism because of the delays involved and a system that fails to prevent illegal activities. This article presents findings from a case-based study that explored concerns about the Greek domestic adoption system. Legal, policy documents and press articles were analysed and face-to-face interviews were conducted with lawyers, social workers and adopters. The study found that legislation was being subverted and bypassed, corruption was tolerated and that illegal practices were being justified. The most common illegal action reported was of financial exchanges between birth parents, professionals and prospective adopters. The article concludes that Greece must go further to regulate domestic adoption, impose stricter sanctions and prevent intermediaries from accepting financial gain from the process.
Subject terms:
professional conduct, social policy, adoption, crime;
Attachment and Human Development, 17(3), 2015, pp.257-271.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
A prospective longitudinal study beginning whilst the infants were living in the Metera Babies Centre showed that the great majority showed a disorganised attachment during the period of residential care, even though neither abuse/neglect nor subnutrition were involved. There was an initial follow-up post-adoption age at four years. This paper concerns a further follow-up of the 52 adopted adolescents aged 13 years who had spent their first two years of life in Metera Babies Centre. They were compared to 36 adolescents reared in their biological families who, during their infancy, attended full-time public day care. The key aim was to examine continuities and discontinuities between early and contemporary relationships. The Child Attachment Interview was employed in adolescence. The main findings were a significant decrease in the rate of disorganisation and a lack of a significant difference between the previously institutionalised group and the family care comparison group on attachment qualities in adolescence. There was not sufficient statistical power, however, to detect a small difference.
(Edited publisher abstract)
A prospective longitudinal study beginning whilst the infants were living in the Metera Babies Centre showed that the great majority showed a disorganised attachment during the period of residential care, even though neither abuse/neglect nor subnutrition were involved. There was an initial follow-up post-adoption age at four years. This paper concerns a further follow-up of the 52 adopted adolescents aged 13 years who had spent their first two years of life in Metera Babies Centre. They were compared to 36 adolescents reared in their biological families who, during their infancy, attended full-time public day care. The key aim was to examine continuities and discontinuities between early and contemporary relationships. The Child Attachment Interview was employed in adolescence. The main findings were a significant decrease in the rate of disorganisation and a lack of a significant difference between the previously institutionalised group and the family care comparison group on attachment qualities in adolescence. There was not sufficient statistical power, however, to detect a small difference.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
looked after children, residential care, attachment, young people, longitudinal studies, comparative studies, adoption;
The aim of the study was to determine whether adopted children with early experiences of institutional care are at an increased risk of developing behavioural difficulties. The participants were 52 adopted adolescents aged 13 years. The comparison group comprised 36 adolescents of the same age who were brought up in their biological families. The adopted young people were more overactive and inattentive at school compared with those raised in their birth families. No between-group differences were found on feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction, on quality of friendships with peers and on self-esteem. Adopted adolescents also tended to be more often referred to psychological services.
(Publisher abstract)
The aim of the study was to determine whether adopted children with early experiences of institutional care are at an increased risk of developing behavioural difficulties. The participants were 52 adopted adolescents aged 13 years. The comparison group comprised 36 adolescents of the same age who were brought up in their biological families. The adopted young people were more overactive and inattentive at school compared with those raised in their birth families. No between-group differences were found on feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction, on quality of friendships with peers and on self-esteem. Adopted adolescents also tended to be more often referred to psychological services.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
adoption, adopted children, adolescence, looked after children, residential child care, risk, behaviour problems, comparative studies;
Describes a Child and Adolescent Unit at a hospital in Greece that has a long tradition of cooperation with social services and child care institutions, based on the willingness to transform a formal routine of assessment into a long term psycho-social therapeutic project. The authors have created a framework of cooperation that can function at the same time as a tool for assessment and therapy, and as a training and research programme.
Describes a Child and Adolescent Unit at a hospital in Greece that has a long tradition of cooperation with social services and child care institutions, based on the willingness to transform a formal routine of assessment into a long term psycho-social therapeutic project. The authors have created a framework of cooperation that can function at the same time as a tool for assessment and therapy, and as a training and research programme.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, looked after children, mental health problems, parent-child relations, psychotherapy, residential child care, adoption, assessment, child abuse, child care, children, emotionally disturbed children, families, foster care;