Selected Publications

Attachment C:

SLAITS/ASPE Collaborative Effort to Improve Data on Vulnerable Subpopulations of Children, 2005-2012

Selected analytic and methodological publications

Analytic

Bramlett MD (2011). School performance and family relationship quality for adopted children:

Benchmark estimates. ASPE Research Brief. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC. Published online August 15, 2011 at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/NSAP/Brief3/rb.shtml

Bramlett MD (2010). When stepparents adopt: Demographic, health and health care characteristics of

adopted children, stepchildren, and adopted stepchildren. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 248-267.

Bramlett MD & Radel LF (2008). Adopted children with special health care needs: Characteristics,

health and health care by adoption type. ASPE Research Brief: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC. Published online October 22, 2008 at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/CSHCN/rb.shtml

Bramlett MD, Radel LF & Blumberg SJ (2007). The health and well-being of adopted children.

Pediatrics, 119(S1): S54-S60.

Faulkner M, Madden EE (2012). Open Adoption and Post-Adoption Birth Family Contact: A Comparison

of Non-Relative Foster and Private Adoptions. Adoption Quarterly 15(1): 35-56.

Malm K, Vandivere S, McKlindon A (2011). Children adopted from foster care: Adoption agreements,

adoption subsidies, and other post-adoption supports. ASPE Research Brief. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC. Published online August 15, 2011 at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/NSAP/Brief2/rb.shtml

Malm K, Vandivere S, McKlindon A (2011). Children adopted from foster care: Child and family

characteristics, adoption motivation, and well-being. ASPE Research Brief. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC. Published online August 15, 2011 at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/NSAP/Brief1/rb.shtml

Malm K, Welti K (2010). Exploring Motivations to Adopt. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 185-208.

McKlindon A, Welti K, Vandivere S, Malm K (2011). Adopted children with special health care needs:

National survey findings. Adoption Advocate 32. Alexandria, VA: National Council for Adoption. Available online at: https://www.adoptioncouncil.org/images/stories/documents/ncfa_adoption_advocate_no32.pdf

Radel LF, Bramlett MD & Kreider RM (2011). Special feature: Adoption. In: Federal Interagency

Forum on Child and Family Statistics. America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office: 69-73. Available online at: http://www.childstats.gov/pdf/ac2011/ac_11.pdf

Radel LF, Bramlett MD & Waters A (2010). Legal and informal adoption by relatives in the U.S.:

Comparative characteristics and well-being from a nationally representative sample. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 268-291.

Rosman E (2011). An overview of the Adoption Quarterly special issue presenting findings from the

National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP). Adoption Advocate 34. Alexandria, VA: National Council for Adoption. Available online at: https://www.adoptioncouncil.org/images/stories/documents/ncfa_adoption_advocate_no34.pdf

Vandivere S, Malm K, Radel LF (2009). Adoption USA: A chartbook based on the 2007 National Survey

of Adoptive Parents. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Available online at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/NSAP/chartbook/index.cfm

Vandivere S, Malm K, McKlindon A (2010). ADOPTION USA: Summary and Highlights of a

Chartbook on the National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Adoption Advocate 22. Alexandria, VA: National Council for Adoption. Available online at: https://www.adoptioncouncil.org/publications/adoption-advocate-no22.html

Vandivere S, McKlindon A (2010). The Well-Being of U.S. Children Adopted From Foster Care,

Privately From the United States and Internationally. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 157-184.

Vonk ME, Lee J, Crolley-Simic J (2010). Cultural Socialization Practices in Domestic and International

Transracial Adoption. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 227-247.

Ward BW (2012). Adoptive parents' suspicion of preadoption abuse of their adopted children and the use

of support services. Child: Care, Health & Development, 38(2): 175-185.

Whitten KL, Weaver SR (2010). Adoptive Family Relationships and Healthy Adolescent Development:

A Risk and Resilience Analysis. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 209-226.

Editorial

Bramlett MD & Radel LF (2010). The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: An introduction to the

special issue of Adoption Quarterly. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 147-156.

Radel LF & Bramlett MD, eds. (2010). Special Issue: The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: A New

Data Resource. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 147-301.

Radel LF & Bramlett MD (2010). Commentary: Research possibilities using the National Survey of

Adoptive Parents. Adoption Quarterly 13(3/4): 292-301.

Methodological

Bramlett MD, Foster EB, Frasier AM, Satorius J, Skalland BJ, Nysse-Carris KL, Morrison HM ,

Chowdhury SR (2010). Design and operation of the National Survey of Adoptive Parents, 2007. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Statistics 1(50). Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_01/sr01_050.pdf

Bramlett MD, Brooks KS, Foster EB, Satorius J, Frasier AM, Skalland BJ, Nysse-Carris KL, Morrison

HM , Chowdhury SR (2010). Design and operation of the National Survey of Adoptive Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2008. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Statistics 1(51). Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_01/sr01_051.pdf

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