Parents with learning disabilities: Does everyone have the right to have children?

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 141-146

  Woodhouse, A E ^a  

^a WHITCHURCH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79959573228     PISSN: 14690047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146900479700100308     Document Type: Article

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