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This Irish system creates the ideal laboratory from which to Applying the lens of transitions will allow me to dig deeper:
ask my research questions: Young adults adopted late from care in Ireland experience the transition
from care to adoption while undergoing other youth transitions.
1) What is the Lived Experience of being adopted late from stable foster care
2) Does being adopted late carry symbolic meaning? Does this additional transition experience have an impact upon
3) How does late adoption from within a stable placement other youth transitions?
impact young adults experiences of youth transitions
Transition to Adulthood
All young adults experience transitions to
adulthood in areas such as housing,
education, relationships and work. (Cielsik and
Sampson, 2013,
Understanding how the
The young adults
Transition out of care transition to being adopted
participating in this interacts with the other
Research suggests that the transition from Potentially
study will have care to independence can be problematic transitions will help shine new
(Stein,2012) reveal symbolic
experienced a meaning light on the meaning being
range of transitions Transition to being Adopted adopted holds for these young
adults
The young people in this study transition to
being adopted within the family where they
have grown up as a foster child. Potentially
being adopted late as a route out of care acts
as a protective factor.