Openness and contact in foster care adoptions: An eight-year follow-up

Family Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 435-446

  Frasch, Karie M ^a   Brooks, Devon ^c   Barth, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adoption; Adoptive parents; Contact; Foster care; Longitudinal; Open adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367753     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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