Is Permanency through Adoption in Decline?

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 41-49

  Triseliotis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption in decline; permanence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009545181     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857599802200407     Document Type: Article

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