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Post-adoption incest and phenotypic matching: experience, personal meanings and biosocial implications.

The British journal of medical psychology - 1 Mar 1995

Greenberg M, Littlewood R

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Recent changes in British law have enabled adults who were adopted when young to trace their biological relatives. The reported frequency of incestuous sentiments and relationships in these reunions, together with the individual experiences and the meanings which are attached to them, challenge fundamental assumptions of both Westermarck's and Freud's theories. Post-adoption incest is characterized experientially...

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PMID: 7779767
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1995.tb01811.x

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