The symbolic crises of adoption: Popular media's agenda setting

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 57-82

  Waggenspack, Beth M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937259351     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v01n04_04     Document Type: Article

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