Counting the Losses: People Who Do Not Pursue Their Adoption Enquiry

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-57

  Wallis, Lorraine ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption enquiry; recruitment; responses to adoption enquiries

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249166195     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590603000107     Document Type: Article

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