Title After adoption : direct contact and relationships / Carole Smith and Janette Logan.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
Summary	Providing a comprehensive understanding of adoption issues and based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, the authors consider the impact of direct post-adoption contact on all concerned.
Contents	1. Adoption in context: social change and openness -- 2. Openness in adoption: essential for children's well-being? -- 3. Policy, law and openness in adoption -- 4. Study: research issues, methods and sample characteristics -- 5. Preparation and planning for direct contact.
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Subject	Adopted children -- Family relationships.
	Adopted children -- Family relationships.
	Birthparents.
	Birthparents.
	Adoptive parents.
	Adoptive parents.
	Adoption -- Law and legislation.
	Adoption -- Law and legislation.
	Adoption -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Birth parents.
	Adoptive parents.
Added Author	Logan, Janette.
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Carole, 1948- After adoption. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 041528208X (DLC) 2003050013 (OCoLC)52086191
ISBN	9781135260705 (electronic book)
	1135260702 (electronic book)
	041528208X
	9780415282086
	0415282217
	9780415282215