Behavioral adjustment of adopted chinese girls in single-mother, lesbian-couple, and heterosexual-couple households

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 171-186

  Xing Tan, Tony ^a   Baggerly, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopted children; Behavioral adjustment; Chinese girls; Lesbian couple household; Single mother household

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950785961     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926750903313336     Document Type: Article

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