Mother-child and father-child emotional availability in families of children with down syndrome

Parenting

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 198-215

  de Falco, Simona ^a   Venuti, Paola ^b   Esposito, Gianluca ^b   Bornstein, Marc H ^c  

^a Department of Cognitive Science and Education ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development   (Italy)

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EID: 70450091090     PISSN: 15295192     EISSN: 15327922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295190902844381     Document Type: Article

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