Another goal of this research was to increase the general knowledge concerning issues facing adopted children, adopted to Iceland from foreign countries at the beginning of mandatory schooling The study is a qualitative interview study using semi-structured interviews The interviewees were six parent pairs, who all in all had twelve adopted children, six teachers all of whom had experience of being class teacher of adopted children at the beginning of primary school.
Rannsóknin fór fram á tímabilinu júní 2012 til október 2012 og fylgir eigindlegum rannsóknarhefðum: Viðtöl voru tekin við sex foreldrapör sem samtals eiga tólf ættleidd börn. Jafnframt voru tekin viðtöl við sex kennara sem allir höfðu reynslu af móttöku ættleiddra barna erlendis frá í bekkinn sinn á fyrstu árum grunnskólans.