Dolores M. Schmidt, James A. Rosenthal, and Beth Bombeck conducted a qualitative study on adoption disruption through an in-depth interview process with 15 adoptive parents of children aged 4 to 17. As stated in the article, (Schmidt, Rosenthal, & Bombeck, 1988) "The interview consisted of 15 semi-structured, open-ended questions which were asked of the parents" (p.121). Many of these questions included ideas of expectations parents had of their child, amount of information they received from their agency, the most significant reasoning's that led to disruption, their degree of attachment to the child, etc.
Schmidt et al. (1988) described to the readers the context of the people they were studying, "The families' life experiences were of an equally wide range. Ages of the parents were from the late thirties to the late forties. About half of the families were upper middle class in income and education and were primarily professional or manger level in employment" (p. 122). After the interviews were conducted Schmidt et al. …show more content…
Burke, The Prevention Group Research Team, Cortney Schlueter, Jessyca Vandercoy, and Karen J. Authier in 2015. This article states that although, "the vast majority of the almost 2 million adoption children in the United States remain with their adoptive family throughout their life"...there is, "an estimated 1% to 25% of adopted children that adoption end in dissolution or disruption" (Burke et al., 2015, p. 291). Burke et al. (2015) tells us, "dissolution occurs when the relationship has been severed between an adoptive child and the adoptive parent who has completed the legal adoption process; disruption occurs when there is a severance of the relationship before the legal adoption is completed" (p.
Schmidt et al. (1988) described to the readers the context of the people they were studying, "The families' life experiences were of an equally wide range. Ages of the parents were from the late thirties to the late forties. About half of the families were upper middle class in income and education and were primarily professional or manger level in employment" (p. 122). After the interviews were conducted Schmidt et al. …show more content…
Burke, The Prevention Group Research Team, Cortney Schlueter, Jessyca Vandercoy, and Karen J. Authier in 2015. This article states that although, "the vast majority of the almost 2 million adoption children in the United States remain with their adoptive family throughout their life"...there is, "an estimated 1% to 25% of adopted children that adoption end in dissolution or disruption" (Burke et al., 2015, p. 291). Burke et al. (2015) tells us, "dissolution occurs when the relationship has been severed between an adoptive child and the adoptive parent who has completed the legal adoption process; disruption occurs when there is a severance of the relationship before the legal adoption is completed" (p.