Speeding adoptions: An evaluation of the effects of judicial continuity

Social Work Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 217-224

  Festinger, Trudy ^a   Pratt, Rachel ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adoption; Court procedures; Evaluation; Foster care; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040670071     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/26.4.217     Document Type: Article

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