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List of contents:Ursula M Gallagher, 'The adoption of mentally retarded children’, Children, 1967Lydia Jackson, 'Unsuccessful adoptions: a study of 40 cases who attended a child guidance clinic’, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1968'Adoption of children: working paper containing the provisional proposals of the Departmental Committee on the Adoption of Children’ [HMSO], 1970Draft comment by NAMH on proposals of the Departmental Committee on the Adoption of Children, Feb 1971Drafts of a paper by RSA, 'The changing face of adoption’, n.d.

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