Foster Parents' Role Performance responsibilities: Perceptions of foster mothers, fathers, and workers

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 935-964

  Rhodes, Kathryn W ^a   Orme, John G ^a   McSurdy, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 0242299258     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-7409(03)00104-X     Document Type: Article

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