Indicators of Adoption Breakdown
Open Access
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Social Casework
- Vol. 64 (3) , 169-177
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104438948306400306
Abstract
Eighty cases of adoption breakdown were compared with a control group of successful adoptions. An analysis of placement decisions strongly indicated that matching a marginal child with marginal parents overloaded the situation and resulted in almost certain breakdown.Keywords
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