Children who wait: Long term foster care or adoption?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 13-28

  Schmidt Tieszen, Ada ^a   McDonald, Thomas P ^b  

^a Bethel College Kansas   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031604378     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-7409(97)00065-0     Document Type: Article

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