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Depression in Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Results of a National Longitudinal Study

Meredith Minkler, DrPH; Esme Fuller-Thomson, PhD; Doriane Miller, MD; Diane Driver, PhD

Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(5):445-452.


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