Descriptions of children's needs and parenthood among mothers with intellectual disability

Mikaela Starke

doi:10.1080/15017419.2010.507374

Descriptions of children's needs and parenthood among mothers with intellectual disability

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 13 (2011): Issue 4

By: Mikaela Starke

Open Access

|Dec 2011

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