Professional foster care: A future worth pursuing?

Child Welfare

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-124

  Testa, Mark F ^a   Rolock, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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