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Are you an adoptive mother of a child that is now a young adult?
You can provide valuable information for researchers on the ability to form secure attachment relationships.
My name is Lacy Hiltbrand, and I am completing my doctoral dissertation on the attachment relationships of young adults who have been adopted. I hope to learn more about the adoptive experience and the human ability to form new attachment relationships. I am looking for volunteers to complete a few questionnaires regarding their experience of relationships. Your responses will be confidential. Although you will receive no direct benefits, your participation will help researchers and professionals working in the field of adoption better understand and meet the needs of adopted children and adoptive parents. This research study has been approved by the Illinois School of Professional Psychology Internal Review Board (IRB).
If you are an adoptive parent of a child that is now between the ages of 18-30 years you can participate. Please go to the link below and follow the prompts. You will be able to view the informed consent before you participate.
[url]https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CKnod9KtUiFeAEF7pWHZZw_3d_3d[/url]
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I was disappointed to find that the study only applies to parents whose children were younger than 6 when adopted (which your posting does not state). Please modify it so others will not be misled.
This cuts out many foster-adopt parents from the study (including myself, an adoptive mother of 4 children, who came to me at ages 8-13 and are now 16-20).
I hope someday more attention will be paid to older child adoption, as attachments in this age group are also deserving of study for helping parents of them in the future.
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lacy, would it be possible to get the information on your results once your research is finalized? Obviously if you are still in the information gathering state it will be awhile before it's completed, but I would love to know what you find out.
I answered your survey as a young adult, but will probably be one of those annoying outliers. As always with quantitative data the results are probably misleading, as I am answering the questions as an individual who has healed (mostly at least) from insecure attachment patterns. Obviously, my answers when I was still in recovery would have been significantly different. Hope it helps though.
Good luck with your dissertation!
Thank you for your time and participation in the study!!!
While your responses may be in the outlier category, it is a small sample so each response carries significant weight and will be valued data.
The results will be posted on surveymonkey.com. I would be happy to notify you as soon as the page is up.