1st Edition
Family Communication Perspectives on Adoptive Family Dynamics Empirical and Theoretical Considerations
Introduction: Adoption, Communication, and Family Networks: Current Research and Future Directions
Colleen Warner
1. The Mediating Role of Adoption Communication Openness between Family Functioning and the Adjustment of Adopted Adolescents: A Multi-Informant Approach
Sonia Ranieri, Laura Ferrari, Rosa Rosnati, Francesca Vittoria Danioni, Elena Canzi and Laurie Miller
2. Adoptive Parents Navigating Adoption Microaggressions through Discourse Dependency and Preparation for Bias Lenses
S. Lee, J. Liu, A.M. Kimura, X. Zhang, J. Kupa, A. Jurca, K. Boland and E.E. Pinderhughes
3. Adopted Individuals’ Information Management Strategies for Managing Uncertainty about Genetic Family Health History
Deborah B. Yoon and Jennifer A. Theiss
4. Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents’ Perspectives on Their Adopted Children’s Puberty and Approaches to Puberty-Related Communication
Abbie E. Goldberg and Haylie Virginia
5. “I Want the Piece of Paper that Is My History, and Why the Hell Can’t I Have It?”: Original Birth Certificates and Adoptive Identity
Melissa Rizzo Weller
6. Propagating Superior-Quality Singleton Children as Anticipatory Modernization: Contextualizing Western Perspectives on Chinese Transnational Adoption
Elizabeth A. Suter, Kelsea V. Schoenbauer and Ping Qiu
Biography
Colleen Warner is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. Her research examines communication in complex, diverse, and modern family structures and experiences, with a specific focus on communication in adoptive families, links between family communication and diverse social identities, and children’s communication experiences.
