"The real parents are the foster parents": Social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 33-47

  Alber, Erdmute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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