Children's awareness of adoption and their problem behavior in families with 7-year-old internationally adopted children

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 1-22

  Juffer, Femmie ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

International adoption; Middle childhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746475784     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v09n02_01     Document Type: Article

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