Birth Parent Initiated Contact Views and Feelings of Adult Adoptees

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 22-28

  Stanaway, Elaine ^a  

^a Diocese of Salford   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039630270     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857599602000406     Document Type: Article

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