Parents who adopt deprived children have a difficult task

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 37-61

  Rijk, Catharina H A M ^a   Hoksbergen, René A C ^a   ter Laak, Jan J F ^a   van Dijkum, Cor ^a   Robbroeckx, L M H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption; Burden of upbringing; Parental stress; Research; Romania

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746491639     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v09n02_03     Document Type: Article

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