Exploring motivations to adopt

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 185-208

  Malm, Karin ^a   Welti, Kate ^a  

^a CHILD TRENDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption type; Adoptive parents; Motivation; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650083721     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2010.524872     Document Type: Article

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