Framing Adoption: The Media and Parental Decision Making

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 654-676

  Jacobson, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption decision making; China adoption; international adoption; media; Russia adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894234545     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X13479333     Document Type: Article

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