Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 386-403

  Kontos, Susan ^a   Howes, Carollee ^b   Shinn, Marybeth ^b   Galinsky, Ellen ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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