CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The main findings of this study included the following:
1. Biological children had better relationship with their parents than the relationship, Adera children had with their Adera parents. The difference between the two groups was also significant. Although findings from other Adera research found that Adera children were securely attached to their Adera parents, this study revealed their relationship was not the same as biological children.
2. The care and support that was provided by parents was not similar to the two groups based on Adera and biological children‟s perspective. Interviews with Adera children proved that Adera parents provide less support and care than they do to their biological children.
3. The relationship between Adera and biological children was not strong. Those Adera children who participated in interview also mentioned that their relationship with their Adera siblings was unstable.
4. Adera children who had weak relationship with their Adera parents will most likely have weak relationship with biological children too and vice versa.
5. Biological children‟s social interaction and future life goal and career plans were found to be optimistic compared to Adera children. However, self-esteem was not significantly different between these two groups.
The major conclusion is rather that Adera care arrangement is constrained by a host factors, has complex nature and needs to be viewed to have pluralistic feature. Hence, it is a gross error to say it makes positive or negative contributions in monolithic terms. Impacts are multifaceted and dependent on a number of interacting forces. Hence, Adera arrangements by biological parents need to be made in a more participatory manner involving the mother, the father as well as the biological children rather than making it only with one party alone.
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