Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption, fostering and kinship issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.
Edited by Dr Dennis Golm, Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of CoramBAAF.
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Welcome to the latest episode of the Adoption and Fostering journal podcast. In this episode, Dennis discusses his editorial on adoptive parents changing adopted children’s first names, alongside other featured research topics, including genetic testing policies, trust between foster carers and teenagers in Denmark, informal foster care in Nigeria, and adoptive family-making in India. The hosts also highlight a GP-led health assessment model in Gloucestershire that supports vulnerable children while reducing pressure on paediatric services. Dennis and Vicky will return with a new journal volume in January 2026.
Volume 49 (Issue 4, December 2025)
Editorial
First name changes of adopted children by adoptive parents: A case for prospective empathy
Dennis Golm
Articles
‘I was once another person with a different name’: Adult adoptees’ experiences of first name changes
Hannah Louise Deakin-Smith, Jane Pilcher, Amanda Coffey, Jan Flaherty, Eve Makis
Drawing a blank: Contract terms in direct-to-consumer genetic testing for family tracing after adoption or out-of-home care
Megan Prictor, Olivia Kowalishin, Jeanette (Jenny) Conrick
Building trust: A multiple case study of teenagers’ and foster parents’ relationships
Nina Thorup Dalgaard, Anne Toft Ramsbøl, Mette Skovgaard Væver, Maiken Pontoppidan
Indigenous knowledge and the challenges of informal foster care practice in South-East Nigeria: The need for a formalised process for child safety
Chinwe U. Nnama-Okechukwu
‘Doing adoptive family’ in contemporary India – A qualitative exploration of adoptive parents’ narratives
Sushri Sangita Puhan
Health Notes
Using specialist GPs to deliver high quality, timely initial health assessments for children in care: A pragmatic response to capacity pressures in community paediatrics
Chris Hewer, Pauline Edwards, Imelda Bennett
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