Search

Cilj ovog završnog rada je predstaviti međunarodno posvojenje, njegove specifičnosti i izazove s kojima se susreću potencijalni posvojitelji kada se odluče na takav korak. S obzirom na to da međunarodno posvojenje nije tema koja se često spominje u Republici Hrvatskoj, predstavit će se i uvjeti koji moraju biti ispunjeni da bi se dijete dalo na posvajanje u drugu državu kao i postupak posvajanja djece iz drugih država te statistički podaci međunarodno posvojene djece. Osobe koje odluče posvojiti dijete izvan granica države u kojoj žive često ne znaju od kuda krenuti i kome se obratiti, a proces i kriteriji koje moraju zadovoljiti znaju biti dugotrajni i iscrpljujući. Djeca se, s druge strane, za to vrijeme nalaze u ustanovama socijalne skrbi ili udomiteljskim obiteljima. Kako se pri zasnivanju posvojenja u prvi plan mora staviti najbolji interes djeteta, postavlja se pitanje kakve posljedice dugotrajnost postupka može ostaviti na djecu i njihova prava. Ključne riječi: međunarodno posvojenje, djeca, posvojitelji, najbolji interes djeteta, The aim of this paper is to present international adoption, its specificities and the challenges that potential adoptive parents face when they decide to take such a step. Considering that international adoption is not a topic that is often mentioned in Croatia, the conditions that must be met in order to put a child up for adoption in another country, as well as the procedure for adopting children from other countries and statistical data on internationally adopted children, will be presented. People who decide to adopt a child outside the borders of the country where they live, often do not know where to go and who to turn to, and the process and criteria they must fullfil can be long and exhausting. Children, on the other hand, are in social welfare institutions or foster families during that time.When establishing an adoption, the best interest of the child must be put first. Thus, the question arises as to what consequences the length of the procedure can have on children and their rights. .

Posvojenje kao poseban oblik obiteljsko-pravnog zbrinjavanja i zaštite djece bez odgovarajuće roditeljske skrbi predstavlja kompleksan fenomen. Posvojiteljima je i prije i poslije posvojenja potrebna podrška i pomoć na njihovom novom obiteljskom putu. Upravo zbog toga potrebno je da se stalno osluškuju potrebe posvojitelja i da se sustav nadograđuje. U ovom radu prvenstveno će biti govora općenito o pojmu i procesu posvojenja, zatim ponešto o prilagodbi posvojenika i posvojitelja na novonastali suživot. Nadalje, opisat će se izazov posvajanja „teže posvojive djece“ kao tema koja je često zanemarena, a veoma bitna. Nakon toga biti će objašnjeni pojmovi formalne i neformalne podrške, prikazat će se primjeri istraživanja i usporediti neke prakse posvojenja u svijetu i u Hrvatskoj te će temeljem navedenog biti predložene neke smjernice za unaprjeđenje sustava podrške za posvojitelje u Hrvatskoj., Adoption as a particular form of family-legal care and protection of children without adequate parental care presents one complexed phenomenon. Before and after adoption adoptive parents need both support and assistance on their new family path. That is why it is necessary to constantly listen to the needs of the adoptive parents and to upgrade the system. This paper will primarily deal with the term and the process of adoption, after which it will deal with the adjustment of an adoptee and his adoptive parents to the newly established coexistence. Furthermore, the paper will explain the challenge of adopting „special needs children“, since this is the topic that is often neglected, but nevertheless very important. Following that, the terms of formal and informal support will be explained along with the researchesand comparisonof some adoption practices in the Republic of Croatia and elsewhere, and following that there will be proposed guidelines for improvement of the support system for adoptive parents in the Republic of Croatia.

養子、養親、および養子の実父母に対して学生が有するイメージに焦点をあて、学生が養親当事者と交流することによって、そのイメージがどのように変化したかを、当事者との交流前と交流後のアンケート調査を比較することを通して明らかにした。分析の結果、①養子の実父母についての批判的なイメージが同情的なイメージに変化すること、②養子についての「かわいそうで心配な」イメージが減少し、これに代わって「その他（自由記述）」の回答が顕著に増加することが見出された。また自由記述の回答の増加を、養子に関するイメージの多様化として捉え、単語の出現頻度、新出単語、単語同士の連関に着目して再分析した結果、「普通」という単語の出現、および、「普通→子ども」「普通→家庭」という連関が新たに生じていることが見出された。このことから、当事者との交流は、学生に養子縁組家庭を身近なイメージをもたらす効果があることが明らかになった。, This paper focused on stereotypes of adoptive family in Japan, i.e. adoptive parents, adopted children, and their birth parents. An adoptive mother was invited to talk about her experience to University & College student in 5 classes. The effect of the talk was examined by comparing the pre- and post-class questionnaires. The results revealed that (1) negative images of birth parents changes to sympathetic ones, (2) free description about adopted children in questionnaire significantly increases contrary to decreased pity stereotypes. Focusing of the words in free description, the word “ordinary ‘” was newly appeared and the word “ordinary” and “children/family” were linked together. It was found that the tales by an adoptive mother made the students feel closer to adopted families.

Adopted children and adolescents are at an increased risk of experiencing emotional, behavioural and relational difficulties compared to their non-adopted peers. This systematic review aimed to establish the effectiveness of interventions with adoptive parents on adopted children and adolescents’ psychological well-being, behavioural functioning and parent–child relationship. A systematic search was performed adhering to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), including studies that assessed the effects of interventions with adoptive parents on adopted child and adolescent outcomes. Electronic databases, key journals, grey literature sources, reference and citation lists were searched and published authors in the field were contacted; 19 papers describing 15 interventions were included. The findings from this review provide preliminary support for the use of interventions with adoptive parents for improving adopted children’s emotional and behavioural outcomes. However, overall, the studies were found to have a high risk of bias, and the significant heterogeneity across the studies limits the conclusions that can be drawn. Further research is required to provide conclusive recommendations regarding the effectiveness of interventions with adoptive parents on the outcomes of adopted children.

This paper investigates adoptive parents’ representations of their children’s birth-language and language negotiation which takes place during early stages of transnational adoption. By drawing on the interview discourse of 20 Italian transnational adoptive parents, in the first part we will focus on the reasons that led parents to use the child’s language with him/her and with orphanage staff during the first contacts in the country of origin. In the second part, the parents reported that they relied both on productive and receptive acquired linguistic knowledge to negotiate linguistic contexts with the child. Language negotiation has been described by the parents as involving the practice of intercomprehension, a plurilingual communicative strategy, which allows participants to speak their first language, while exhibiting receptive competences in the language of the other. Eventually, in the third part, we will describe how the mothers and the fathers rationalized the children’s linguistic transition from their first language to the parents’ language and, finally, we will explore the parents’ discourse around language shift. Examining parents’ perceptions of the role that language plays in the experience of adopting contributes to understanding the negotiation which takes place over the topic of language maintenance in specific contexts where parents and children have divergent linguistic repertoires.

This paper will discuss two search memoirs with widely divergent results by British Jeremy Harding and American Lori Jakiela, in which the memoirists recount discoveries about their adoptive parents, as well as their birth parents. While in both cases the adoptions are same-race, both provide material for analysis of class and class mobility. Both searchers discover that the adoption, in more blatant ways than usual, was aimed at improving the parents&rsquo, lives&mdash, impressing a rich relative or distracting from the trauma of past sexual abuse&mdash, rather than benefiting the adoptee. They also discover the importance of various kinds of shame: for example, Harding discovers that his adoptive mother hid the close connection that she had had with his birthmother, because she was trying to rise in class. Jakiela imagines the humiliation her birthmother experienced as she tries to understand her resistance to reunion. Both memoirists recall much childhood conflict with their adoptive parents but speculate about how much of their personalities come from their influence. Both narrate changes in their attitudes about their adoption, neither one settles for a simple choice of either adoptive or birth identity. Contrasts in their memoirs relate especially to gender, nation, class, and attitudes to fictions.

Policy and practice relating to openness in adoption have changed substantially in the last 30 years. There is a growing body of empirical research that supports both structural and communicative openness, and there is widespread consensus that communicative openness is desirable within adoptive families. Despite this, there is evidence that some adoptive parents and their adopted children struggle to achieve the level of communicative openness to which they aspire. This paper presents data from a small-scale exploratory study of adoptive family life. It draws on the narrative accounts of adoptive mothers and fathers to explore some of the sensitivities of adoption talk, the communication challenges experienced by adoptive parents, and the ways that adopters manage these challenges. Finally, some suggestions are made for practice.