"The Child That Was Meant?" or "Punishment for Sin?": Religion, Ethnicity, and Families with Children with Disabilities

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation

Volumn 22, Issue C, 1999, Pages 267-288

  Glidden, Laraine Masters ^a   Rogers Dulan, Jeannette ^b   Hill, Amy E ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4544347812     PISSN: 00747750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7750(08)60136-6     Document Type: Chapter

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