Completing the evaluation triangle for the next century: Measuring child "well-being" in family foster care

Child Welfare

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-147

  Altshuler, Sandra J ^a   Gleeson, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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