Who seeks to adopt a child?: Findings from the national survey of family growth (1995)

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-23

  Hollingsworth, Leslie Doty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Adoption seeking; Blacks; National survey of family growth; Whites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937323047     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v03n03_01     Document Type: Article

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