Providing a Birth Relative Intermediary Service: The Non-Searching Adopted Person’s Perspective

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 18-28

  Smith, Janet ^a   Wallace, Rose ^a  

^a The Children s Society s Post Adoption and Care: Counselling and Research Project   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; birth relatives; identity; intermediary services; non searching adoptees; reunion

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650451612     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590002400404     Document Type: Article

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