Family environmental influences and development: Illustrations from the study of undernourished children

Families, Risk, and Competence

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 245-268

  Wachs, Theodore D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315805863-19     Document Type: Chapter

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