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Guide to the impact of social networking on adoption and the implications for adopted young people and their families
Author: Eileen Fursland, freelance writer BIOG
Last Updated: 19 June 2012
Publication Date: 06 September 2010
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Introduction
Pre-adoption
Life story work
Contact agreements
Maintaining privacy
Children’s names
Adopted young people and curiosity
Birth relatives
Social networking and the internet
What can adoptive parents do?
The effects of and unmediated and unplanned contact
Managing the situation
Key resources
Introduction
Local authorities, adoption agencies and adoption social workers are developing new skills and strategies in response to the revolution in social networking, which is affecting many aspects of adoption.
Some local authorities are already using social media marketing - such as targeted ads on Facebook - to recruit prospective new adopters.
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