The postadoption experience: Child, parent, and family predictors of family adjustment to adoption

Child Welfare

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-94

  McDonald, Thomas P ^a   Propp, Jennifer R ^a   Murphy, Kimberlee C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PARENT; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; KANSAS; MALE; PARENTS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035234222     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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