Openness in adoption: Research with the adoption kinship network

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-65

  Grotevant, Harold D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Family; Open adoption; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017085737     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v04n01_04     Document Type: Article

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