Adoptive identity: How contexts within and beyond the family shape developmental pathways

Family Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 379-387

  Grotevant, Harold D ^a   Dunbar, Nora ^a   Kohler, Julie K ^a   Esau, Amy M Lash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adoption; Family; Identity; Relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034363329     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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