Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact: The Early Experience of the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 16-26

  Kedward, Carol ^a   Luckock, Barry ^a   Lawson, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoptive parents; birth parents; children; mediation; post adoption contact; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650418693     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857599902300304     Document Type: Article

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