Parenting attitudes, foster parenting attitudes, and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 715-732

  Gillis Arnold, Renee ^b   Crase, Sedahlia Jasper ^a   Stockdale, Dahlia F ^b   Shelley II, Mack C ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032188110     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-7409(98)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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