Adoption seachers' use of libraries: A pilot descriptive study

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 264-273

  Chelton, Mary K ^a   Brody, Roberta ^a   Crosslin, Donna ^a  

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6. H. D. Kirk, Shared Fate: A Theory of Adoption and Mental Health (New York: The Free Press, 1964); Arthur D. Sorosky, Annette Baran, and Reuben Pannor, The Adoption Triangle - Sealed or Opened Records: How They Affect Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Parents (San Antonio, Tex.: Corona Pub., 1984): 140-56; Carole Hope Depp, "After Reunion: Perceptions of Adult Adoptees, Adoptive Parents, and Birth Parents," Child Welfare 61 (1982): 115-19; Erica Haines and Noel Timms, Adoption, Identity and Social Policy: The Search for Distant Relatives (Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1985), 7; Betty Jean Lifton, Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (New York: Basic Bks., 1994); H. D. Kirk, Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform (Toronto: Butterworths, 1981); Nancy N. Verrier, Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child (Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Pr., 1993); Karen March, The Stranger Who Bore Me: Adoptee-Birthmother Relationships (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1995), 121-42.
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