Mothers with Learning Disabilities: Experiences and Meanings of Losing Custody of their Children

Tizard Learning Disability Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 3-14

  Baum, Sandra ^a   Burns, Jan ^a  

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EID: 84993089931     PISSN: 13595474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13595474200700018     Document Type: Review

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