Adoption narratives: The construction of adoptive identity during adolescence

Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 135-161

  Dunbar, Nora ^a   Grotevant, Harold D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610300     Document Type: Chapter

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