Child welfare professionals' attitudes toward kinship foster care

Child Welfare

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-337

  Beeman, Sandra ^a   Boisen, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

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