%0 Journal Article
%T Beyond the ChildĄ¯s Age at Placement: Risk and Protective Factors in Preadoption Breakdown in Portugal
%A Maria Barbosa-Ducharne
%A Sylvie Marinho
%J Research on Social Work Practice
%@ 1552-7581
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1049731518783855
%X The main goals were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parentsĄ¯ reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors. A matched design involving a case file analysis of 71 disrupted and 71 intact preadoptive placements was used. The accumulated incidence of preadoption disruption was 5.8%. Adoptive parentsĄ¯ motives for requesting removal included the childĄ¯s behavior, their own parenting limitations, and dissatisfaction with professional interventions. These three domains were present in the group comparisons and explained 54% of the variance, predicting group membership for 80.8% cases. Besides age at placement, other risk factors related to the child, the adopters, and the professional practices help to gain a more complete understanding of adoption disruption
%K preadoption breakdown
%K risk and protective factors
%K childĄ¯s age at placement
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1049731518783855