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If you have not already taken this survey please do so.

The Surrender Survey is Ready for FULL Release

The Surrender Survey, an online survey for parents who have lost children to adoption, has been tweaked thanks to feedback from its test run.

Surrender Survey Project

Those who tried unsuccessfully to complete it are urged to try again. Far less of the questions are currently “required” so you need to go slowly and make sure you not skip any.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this survey is to apprise the long term effects and attitudes of mothers (and fathers) who have lost children to adoption, particularly in terms of any “promises” or expectations of confidentiality. Accurate data regarding attitudes, perceptions, beliefs and practices affecting parents in these situations is vital in formulating upcoming legislation in areas of family preservation, foster care and adoption. We hope this survey will be the most comprehensive study of parents who surrendered parental rights or whose rights were terminated resulting in their children being either adopted or remaining in foster care. Your cooperation – regardless of any previous such surveys* you may or may not have participated in – is highly appreciated.

The goal is to have 600 OR MORE parents take this survey before December 1, 2008. This survey is limited to American adoption practices therefore you need to reside in the U.S. If you take this survey and know of any other parents who have either relinquished or had their rights terminated and can take this survey; PLEASE spread the word.

Please take the survey at: Surrender Survey Project

If you are unable or unwilling to complete the survey at anytime for any reason, please provide feedback to the following email address: SurrenderSurvey@gmail.com.


*This surveys replaces the “BirthParent Project” which, though it had 600 respondents, was found to contain some technical difficulties upon analysis of the results. Further, this survey will be advertised in newspapers in order to solicit responses from parents who lost children in the “public”, in order to reduce the limitations of relying on a select audience.