adoption triad

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Adoption Triad

A term referring to the interdependent ("three-sided") relationship in an adoption between birth parents, adoptive parents, and the adopted person.

adoption triad

The biological parents of a child, the adoptive parents, and the child who is adopted.

See also: triad

References in periodicals archive ?

She writes from experience with two sides of what's known as the "adoption triangle": She was adopted as an infant, and she and her husband have adopted two children from Burundi.

Adoption can show us new way of belonging, connecting

Author's Note: I would like to dedicate this article to my mentors, Annette Baron (author of The Adoption Triangle and Lethal Secrets) and Sharon Kaplan Rozia (author of The Open Adoption Experience).

The child's advocate in donor conceptions: the telling of the story

Triseliotis J, Feast J and Kyle F, The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption, search and reunion, London: BAAF, 2005

Open adoption Adoptive parents' experiences of birth family contact and talking to their child about adoption

(169) No party to the adoption triangle was emotionally innocent or whole.

The paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption

Whatever may be the difficulties and conflicts of actual people involved in the adoption triangle, at the political level, it's all win-win: adoption and apple pie.

Adoption fantasy

Triseliotis J, Feast J and Kyle F, The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption search and reunion experiences, London: BAAF, 2005