SingerL MBrodzinskyD MBraffA M, ‘Children's beliefs about adoption: a developmental study’, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1982, 3, 285–294.
2.
SoroskyA DBaranAPannorR, The adoption triangle: the effects of the sealed record on adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1979.
3.
WiederH, ‘On being told of adoption’, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1977, 46, 1–23.
4.
BrodzinskyD M, ‘Adjustment factors in adoption’, Final Grant Paper (MH34549), National Institute of Mental Health, 1983.
5.
BrodzinskyD MPappasCSingerL MBraffA M, ‘Children's conception of adoption: a preliminary investigation’, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 1981, 6, 177–189.
6.
BrodzinskyD MSchechterD EBraffA MSingerL M, Psychological and academic adjustment of adopted children, manuscript submitted for publication, 1983.
7.
BrodzinskyD MSingerL MBraffA M, ‘Children's understanding of adoption’, Child Development, in press.
8.
ChandlerM J, ‘Social cognition: a selective review of current research’, In OvertonWGallagherJ (Eds), Knowledge and development Vol 1, New York: Plenum Press, 1977.
9.
DamonW, The social world of the child, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1977.
10.
FlavellJ HRossL (eds), Social cognitive development: frontiers and possible futures, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
11.
FurthH G, The world of grown-ups: children's conception of society, New York: Elsevier, 1980.
12.
KadushinA, Child welfare services, New York: Macmillan, 1974.
13.
KirkH D, Shared fate: a theory of adoption and mental health, New York: Free Press, 1964.
14.
MechE V, ‘Adoption: a policy perspective’, In CaldwellBRicuittiH (Eds), Review of child development research Vol 3, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
15.
PellerL, ‘About telling the child of his adoption’, Bulletin of the Philadelphia Association of Psychoanalysis, 1961, 2, 145–154.
16.
PiagetJ, ‘Piaget's theory’, In MussenP (Ed), Carmichael's manual of child psychology Vol 1, New York: Wiley, 1970.
17.
RondellFMichaelsR, The adopted family: Book I: You and your child (revised ed), New York: Crown Publishers, 1978.
18.
SchechterM, ‘Observations on adopted children’, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1960, 3, 21–32.
