Open adoption relationships are rife with privacy dilemmas and fuzzy boundaries, which require ongoing coordination of private disclosures as a result. The present study employed communication privacy management (CPM) theory to examine adoptive parents’ (N = 354) private disclosures with the birth family across in-person and mediated (i.e., texting and social media) contexts. SEM analysis revealed that adoptive families who were more private and were concerned about the birth family sharing private information with others viewed disclosures to the birth family as risky. These privacy concerns related to adoptive parents being more clear with the birth family about preferences for sharing that private information with others. More social media contact between birth and adoptive parents predicted increased perceptions of risk of disclosure to birth parents. Results advance CPM theorizing by underscoring the motivational bases of perceived risk, the importance of anticipated boundary turbulence, and the nuanced privacy management processes within communication modes.

开放式收养关系充斥着隐私困境和模糊边界，因此需要不断协调私人披露。本研究采用通信隐私管理（CPM）理论来研究养父母的（N = 354）在亲身和媒介（即短信和社交媒体）环境中与出生家庭的私人披露。扫描电镜分析显示，收养家庭更加私密，并担心分娩家庭与他人共享私人信息，因此对分娩家庭的披露是有风险的。这些隐私问题与收养父母与出生家庭对与他人共享该私人信息的偏好更加明确有关。出生和收养父母之间更多的社交媒体联系预计将增加对向出生父母披露信息的风险的认识。通过强调感知风险的动机基础，预期边界动荡的重要性以及通信模式内细微的隐私管理过程，结果推动了CPM理论化。