When stepparents adopt: Demographic, health and health care characteristics of adopted children, stepchildren, and adopted stepchildren

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 248-267

  Bramlett, Matthew D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopted children; National survey of children's health; State and local area integrated telephone survey; Stepchildren

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650110654     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2010.537954     Document Type: Article

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