Scale of Acknowledging Differences Test - the question form
Questions: 22 · 5 minutes
1. Do you feel that parents raising their biological children have joys that adoptive parents do not have?
Yes
No
2. Do you think that people who have not raised their biological children are missing something?
Yes
No
3. When a child is expected, but has not yet arrived.
Adoptive parents’ feelings will be different
Adoptive parents’ feelings are the same as those of biological parents
4. When relatives meet the child.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as those of biological parents
5. When someone starts talking about whether a child resembles their parents.
Adoptive parents' feelings would be different
Adoptive parents' feelings would be the same as biological parents' feelings
6. When a parent notices that their child is pushing other children (behaving aggressively toward other children).
Adoptive parents’ feelings would be different
Adoptive parents’ feelings would be the same as those of biological parents
7. When a child asks where babies come from.
Adoptive parents’ feelings will be different
Adoptive parents’ feelings are the same as those of biological parents
8. When you talk with a neighbor (or friend) about children and the problems related to them.
Adoptive parents’ feelings will be different.
Adoptive parents’ feelings are the same as biological parents’ feelings.
9. On the child’s birthday.
Adoptive parents’ feelings will be different
Adoptive parents’ feelings are the same as biological parents’
10. When the child is ill.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as those of biological parents
11. When a child starts school.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as those of biological parents
12. When a child gets into trouble with other children or is teased (bullied).
Adoptive parents' feelings would be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as biological parents' feelings
13. During adolescence, when a child seeks independence and places parents in a less central role.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as biological parents' feelings
14. When a child begins to think about getting married.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as those of biological parents
15. When the child has grown up, started their own family, and the first grandchild is born.
Adoptive parents' feelings will be different
Adoptive parents' feelings are the same as biological parents'
16. In your view, are there some joys in the experience of adoptive parents that other (biological) parents do not have?
Yes
No
17. Now thinking about parents raising their biological children: Is there anything in their experience that adoptive parents do not have?
Yes
No
18. Are there situations in which you are especially aware that you are an adoptive parent?
Yes
No
19. Will your family have any special family rituals, celebrations, or particular days that you observe in connection with the adoption?
Yes
No
20. Now a question about your child’s biological parents. How often do you think about them?
Often
Sometimes
Never
21. At times, parents may feel that they might have been happier with a different child than their own. This feeling is more likely to occur...
In a family without an adopted child
In a family with an adopted child
This feeling can arise just as likely in a family without an adopted child as in one with an adopted child.
22. Some people believe that adoptive families differ in certain ways from other families. Based on this, do you agree that it is quite acceptable for adoptive families to openly show that they are different?
Yes
No