Understanding Other People’s Perspectives: Tasks for Adopters in Open Adoption

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 3-30

  Neil, Elsbeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoptive parents; Contact; Empathy; Open adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947424998     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v06n03_02     Document Type: Article

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