Parenting versus placing for adoption: Consequences for adolescent mothers

Family Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 427-434

  Donnelly, Brenda W ^a   Voydanoff, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy; Adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030251435     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585172     Document Type: Article

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