To Tell or Not to Tell: Factors Affecting Adoptees' Telling Their Adoptive Parents about Their Search

Child Welfare

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-72

  Lichtenstein, Tovah ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

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