Educational achievement in adopted children from China

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 45-58

  Dalen, Monica ^a   Rygvold, Anne Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adoptees from China; Age of adoption; Country of origin; Educational achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751528246     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v09n04_03     Document Type: Article

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