英文摘要 |
According to The Protection of Children and Adolescents’Welfare and Rights Act, domestic adoption is prioritized over international adoption. Nevertheless, most special needs children are adopted by international parents. Other than in 2018 and 2020, the number of domestic adoptions has been consistently lower than that for international adoptions. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore the attitudes and experience of adoption social workers regarding matching children with domestic families. Using a qualitative research approach, ten adoption social workers participated in a focus group in 2019. The results showed that social workers continually advocate for the adoptees, speak for them, and are dissatisfied with adopting parents who select children; however, they still attempt to understand parents’needs for the adoptees’sake. As adoption social workers, finding homes for special needs children is their major task and carries a heavy responsibility, which is often theirs alone. In order to keep adoptees in the country, this study applied an ecological perspective and suggests establishing adoption teams and creating more welfare benefits for adopting families. |