How do Americans get information about adoption?
Those we surveyed most frequently cited friends and family as their main source of information about adoption. The news, magazines and books together ranked second as the main source of such information with entertainment programming running behind the news, books and magazines. Among those who were more marginal in their support for adoption, respondents were as likely to name the news as friends and family as their main source of information a finding that is important when we consider the nature of news and entertainment coverage about adoption a point I will shortly address. The survey also revealed that Americans vary significantly in their views of and beliefs about members of the adoption triad. While almost all Americans saw adoptive families as lucky and advantaged, as many as one in four Americans questioned whether the love between a parent and child can be as strong in adoptive families as in biological families. Similarly, most people held positive views of adopted childre
