The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a leading (and LGBT inclusive) national non-profit devoted to improving adoption policy and practice, is conducting a new study on diversity adoptive family life—and they want LGBT families to be a part.
I’ve always felt it’s important to study families across many different dimensions of diversity, so it’s great to see a study like this that focuses on adoptive families both LGBT and not (in addition to studies by others on LGBT families both adoptive and not). One of the heads of the study, David Brodzinsky, co-edited Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity with Adoption Institute Executive Director Adam Pertman (about which more here), so it’s no surprise they’re being inclusive again.
Here are the details on the new study, which you can take part in via the Web, e-mail, or postal mail. I hope some of you will be a part.
The Donaldson Adoption Institute is conducting a new study exploring the experiences and needs of different types of adoptive families (e.g., heterosexual versus LGBT families; in-racial versus transracial families; and families involved in varying levels of openness). By increasing our knowledge about adoptive family diversity, we hope to enhance training of adoption professionals and improve services for children and their parents.
Participants will fill out a 30 minute questionnaire either online through Survey Monkey, by email, or by postal mail. This is a confidential survey, requiring no sharing of identifying information. Participation is strictly voluntary and respondents can end their involvement in the research at any time without consequence.
The research, which is headed by David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. and Jeanne Howard, Ph.D., has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Illinois State University. If you are interested in taking part in this study, or finding out more about it, please contact Dr. Brodzinsky (dbrodzinsky@adoptioninstitute.org or 510-985-1772), or simply click on the hyperlink to access the survey online.
Thank you for your help and for your commitment to improving the lives of children through adoption.
Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
David Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Research Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Jeanne Howard, Ph.D., Research and Policy Director, Evan. B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
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