Quality, quantity and type of childcare: Effects on child development in the U.S.

Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting across Human Societies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 302-322

  Belsky, Jay ^a,b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Americas   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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