Successful adoption of children with down syndrome and other developmental disabilities

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 27-43

  Glidden, Laraine Masters ^a   Cahill, Brigid M ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84937257582     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v01n03_03     Document Type: Article

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