Working at the margins: The views and experiences of court social workers on parental orders work in surrogacy arrangements

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1225-1243

  Crawshaw, Marilyn ^a   Purewal, Satvinder ^b   Van Den Akker, Olga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Ethics; Infertility; Parenting; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888381588     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcs045     Document Type: Article

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