'How will you ever understand him?' Examining the role of privacy management in adoptive families

• In Event: Adoptive Family Communication

Abstract

This paper examines how adoptive families manage privacy boundaries using Communication Privacy Management theory. The paper focuses on how adoptive families construct privacy boundaries around information about their adoption process and about their adopted child's biological family. This paper also focuses on the function(s) served by constructing privacy boundaries around the adoption process and information regarding the adopted child's biological family.

Authors

• Emily Rauscher, University of Missouri, Columbia

• Sarah Symonds, University of Missouri, Columbia