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dc.contributor.authorL. Passmore, Nola
dc.contributor.authorChipuer, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:51:39Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:51:39Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-06-23T05:23:56Z
dc.identifier.issn00029432
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/a0014954
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/29915
dc.description.abstractQualitative data were analyzed to identify factors associated with adoptees' satisfactions or dissatisfactions in their contact experiences with their birth fathers. Participants were 17 women who had been adopted prior to 2 years of age and had subsequently met their birth fathers. All women completed a questionnaire and 7 also took part in a semistructured interview. Four main themes were identified that affected satisfaction with contact: birth fathers' attributes and behavior, adoptees' attributes (e.g., expectations), behavior of others (e.g., birth mother, birth father's family, and adoptive parents), and circumstances of the conception and relinquishment. The implications of these findings for members of the adoption triangle and those providing postadoption services are discussed.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Orthopsychiatric Association
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom93
dc.relation.ispartofpageto102
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume79
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode170199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.titleFemale Adoptees’ Perceptions of Contact With Their Birth Fathers: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions With the Process
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorChipuer, Heather


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