Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 232-238 , May 2007

Media Content and Externalizing Behaviors in Latino Toddlers

Presented in part at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco, Calif, May 2004, and at the annual meeting of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics in Chicago, Ill, October 2004.

Received 5 August 2006 ,Accepted 24 January 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ambp.2007.02.004

Ambulatory Pediatrics
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