Identity conflicts in adoptees.
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 45 (1) , 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01162.x
Abstract
A review of the literature, and interviews with a large number of adoptees who have experienced reunions with their birth parents, indicates that adoptees are more vulnerable than the population at large to the development of identity problems in late adolescence and young adulthood.Keywords
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