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“What Do You Say to Your Mother When Your Mother's Standing Beside You?” Birth and Adoptive Family Contributions to Adoptive Identity via Relational Identity and Relational–Relational Identity Gaps

Colleen Warner ColanerCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Danielle Halliwell
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Phillip Guignon
Pages 469-494 | Published online: 12 Sep 2014

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Limor Lotan, Charles W. Greenbaum & Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia. (2023) Crafting Identity out of Uncertainty: Narratives of Israeli Adults Adopted as Infants. Adoption Quarterly 0:0, pages 1-29.
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Colleen Warner Colaner, Haley Kranstuber Horstman & Christine E. Rittenour. (2018) Negotiating Adoptive and Birth Shared Family Identity: A Social Identity Complexity Approach. Western Journal of Communication 82:4, pages 393-415.
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Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Colleen Warner Colaner, Leslie R Nelson, Alyssa Bish & Alexie Hays. (2018) Communicatively Constructing Birth Family Relationships in Open Adoptive Families: Naming, Connecting, and Relational Functioning. Journal of Family Communication 18:2, pages 138-152.
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Sara Docan-Morgan. (2017) Korean Adoptees’ Discursive Construction of Birth Family and Adoptive Family Identity Through Names and Labels. Communication Quarterly 65:5, pages 523-548.
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Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Colleen Warner Colaner & Christine E. Rittenour. (2016) Contributing Factors of Adult Adoptees’ Identity Work and Self-Esteem: Family Communication Patterns and Adoption-Specific Communication. Journal of Family Communication 16:3, pages 263-276.
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