Adopted Persons’ Search for and Contact with Their Birth Parents II: Adoptee-Birth Parent Contact

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 39-62

  Müller, Ulrich ^a   Perry, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Adoptive parents; Birth parents; Contact; Outcome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937335408     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v04n03_03     Document Type: Article

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