Paternal Incarceration And The Medicalization Of Children’s Problem Behavior
Written by: Signe Hald Andersen, Jeppe Elholm Madsen, Peter Fallesen and Christopher Wildeman
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Signe Hald Andersen
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Peter Fallesen
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