A student at Suffolk University is doing a research study on how we try to integrate our children's culture. For more info, please read his letter by clicking on "more."
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Dear Parents,
My name is Frances Tung and I am currently a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at Suffolk University. I have been interested in transracial adoption for a few years now. When I began developing my idea for a dissertation, I decided to study transracial adoption, not only because of my personal interest, but because of the lack of research available and the urgent need for it. What I have developed is 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 China, Guatemala, or Russia 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 your parenting practices and the adjustment of your adoptee 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 (current or last year's) to complete.
This study will have a number of benefits. These findings will help to better understand the experience of transracial adoptees. The study will shed light on the parenting 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