Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They Curious About?

International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 217-244

  Wrobel, Gretchen Miller ^a   Dillon, Kristin ^b  

^a BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopted children; Adoptive identity; Birth family; Exploratory behavior; Perceptual curiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886151641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470741276.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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