Adult Adoptees and Their Friends: Current Functioning and Psychosocial Well‐Being*

By L. Borders, J. M. Penny, Francie Portnoy. 2000

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Adoption, attachment, and relationship concerns: A study of adult adoptees (2007, background): “Specifically, the losses are often unacknowledged or downplayed (a situation associated with little support provision), and may entail a sense of abandonment and rejection (Brodzinsky, 1990; Jones, 1997; Nickman, 1985).”
Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children. (2009, methodology): “We excluded studies measuring attachment style (e.g. Borders et al., 2000), since our study focuses on the attachment relationships of the adoptees with their adoptive parents, instead of on their romantic or intimate attachment relationships in general.”