Contact in Adoption: The Experience of Adoptive Families in the USA

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-67

  Wrobel, Gretchen Miller ^a   Grotevant, Harold D ^b   Berge, Jerica ^b   Mendenhall, Tai ^b   McRoy, Ruth ^c  

^a BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 33847395181     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590302700108     Document Type: Article

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