Children’s rights and social media: Issues and prospects for adoptive families in Italy
Study details
| Year: | 2015 |
| Scope: | Local |
| Countries: | Italy |
| Methodology: | Empirical research – Qualitative |
| Methods of data collection: | Interview |
| Researched Groups: | Social workers; Other practitioners working with children |
| Informed Consent: | Consent not mentioned |
| Data Set Availability: | Not mentioned |
Goals
Interviewing adoption experts to explore:
"• Whether and how adopted children use the Internet and social media to look for
information about and/or have contact with their birth family (and vice versa);
• The impact on their personal and family lives;
• To what extent this new situation is actually changing rights and practices in the
field of adoptions." (Aroldi & Vittadini, 2017, p. 744)