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The adoptive process: Challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities

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  1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

    Glen W. White (Assistant Professor of Human Development)

  2. Department of Rehabilitation Nursing, Saint Francis Hospital, Topeka, Kansas

    Nancy L. White

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Excerpted fromReproductive Issues for Persons with Physical Disabilities, Brookes Publishing Company. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

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White, G.W., White, N.L. The adoptive process: Challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities. Sex Disabil 11, 211–219 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01102580

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