Contact between adoptive and birth families: Perspectives from the Minnesota/Texas adoption research project

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 193-198

  Grotevant, Harold D ^a   Mcroy, Ruth G ^b   Wrobel, Gretchen M ^c   Ayers Lopez, Susan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Adoption; Contact; Grief; Identity; Loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881609853     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12039     Document Type: Article

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