Mediated Contact: Reflections on a Piece of after-Adoption Intermediary Practice

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 53-63

  Clapton, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

after adoption; contact; intermediary

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249158555     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590603000408     Document Type: Article

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