First name changes of adopted children by adoptive parents: A case for prospective empathy

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Children Act 1989, c. 41 (UK) Available at: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41

Deakin-Smith

Pilcher

Coffey

Flaherty

Makis

(2025) ‘I was once another person with a different name’: Adult adoptees’ experiences of first name changes. Adoption & Fostering 49(4): 404–420.

Flaherty

Pilcher

Deakin-Smith

Coffey

(2025) Renaming in adoption: Exploring name ambivalence in adoptive parents’ name stories. Child & Family Social Work. doi: 10.1111/cfs.70037

Pilcher

Hooley

Coffey

(2020) Names and naming in adoption: Birth heritage and family making. Child & Family Social Work 25(3): 568–575.

United Nations (1989) Convention on the Rights of the Child . United Nations Treaty Series, 1577, 3. Available at: www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child