Coming to terms with a consensual definition of child maltreatment

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-68

  Portwood, Sharon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000320996     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: 15526119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559599004001006     Document Type: Article

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