Accepting the Reality of Adoption: Birth Relatives' Experiences of Face-to-Face Contact

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 32-43

  Neil, Elsbeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; birth relatives; contact; face to face contact; post adoption contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944461124     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590302700206     Document Type: Article

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