Female Adoptees' Perceptions of Contact With Their Birth Fathers: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions With the Process

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-102

  Passmore, Nola L ^a   Chipuer, Heather M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

adoptees; adoption; birth fathers; birth parents; reunion

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; FAMILY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REUNION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOPTION; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERSONAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 64649086215     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014954     Document Type: Article

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