Many faces of openness in adoption: Perspectives of adopted adolescents and their parents

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 79-101

  Grotevant, Harold D ^a   Wrobel, Gretchen Miller ^b   Von Korff, Lynn ^c   Skinner, Brooke ^c   Newell, Jane ^c   Friese, Sarah ^c   McRoy, Ruth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopted adolescents; Adoption; Adoptive kinship network; Birth parent contact; Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project; Openness in adoption; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650502769     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926750802163204     Document Type: Article

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