Shared Care: Establishing a Balance between Home and Child Care Settings

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1044-1049

  Ahnert, Lieselotte ^a   Lamb, Michael E ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Natl Inst Child Hlth Hum Devmt   (Germany)

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EID: 0141936174     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00587     Document Type: Article

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