Covering adoption: General depictions in broadcast news

Family Relations

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-498

  Kline, Susan L ^a   Karel, Amanda I ^a   Chatterjee, Karishma ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Broadcast media; Families; News frame; Stigma; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748254503     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00417.x     Document Type: Article

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