"We're tired, not sad": benefits and burdens of mothering a child with a disability.

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  2007

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  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

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  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2006.08.025PMID 17014946
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