When I adopted my darling daughter in 2000, there weren't many studies on outcomes in international adoption..... At least I didn't find many.

I recently found an interesting list of various doctors who are doing research on international adoption.

And then I found this email in my inbox.

My name is Frances Tung and I am currently a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at Suffolk University. I am currently conducting a study to survey the cultural socialization strategies used by parents of international adoptees and to evaluate these as factors in the child's psychological adjustment.

I am asking for your participation in the project. I am looking for
families with adopted children from Eastern Europe who are currently between the ages of 6 and 12 years old and were adopted before the age of 2.

The study will involve completing a set of questionnaires regarding cultural socialization and the adjustment of your child as well as demographic information. This set of surveys will take approximately an hour and a half to complete. In addition, a teacher questionnaire is included for your child's teacher to complete (if possible).

This study will have a number of benefits. These findings will help to better understand the experience of international adoptees. The study will shed light on the cultural socialization strategies used by parents and its effects on the child. Once the study has concluded, a summary of the results will be provided to all participants.

All information collected during the investigation will be kept strictly confidential and used only for the purposes of this study. Any identifiers will be removed from the questionnaires when analyzing the data.

If you would like to participate in the study or have any questions, please email me at frances.tung@suffolk.edu or 617-515-7146. I thank you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Frances Tung
Graduate Student
Suffolk University

I cannot participate in the study since my darling daughter was adopted at 3.5 years of age. So I am passing it on to whoever is interested.

By the way I google'ed Frances Tung. She is a Psychology Department Ph.D. student

I did the math and figured out that Frances is trying to find families who adopted from Ukraine; 1996 to 2002.

So looking at Ukrainian adoption by Americans... 3,574 children were
adopted from Ukraine by Americans during that timeframe.

I did email Frances and ask what does "cultural socialization" mean? She is talking about keeping the Ukrainian adopted child in touch with their former culture...... attending heritage camps, discussing culture with the child, adoption playgroups.