International adoption: What is fact, what is fiction, and what is the future?

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1221-1246

  Johnson, Dana E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CHILD WELFARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFANTICIDE; LAW; MOTIVATION; NORTH AMERICA; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARENT; PEDOPHILIA; PROSTITUTION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADOPTION; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, ABANDONED; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 24344507769     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2005.06.008     Document Type: Review

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