Are there different types of homeless families? A typology of homeless families based On cluster analysis

Family Relations

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-165

  Danseco, Evangeline R ^b   Holden, E Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Child development; Homelessness; Parenting; Poverty; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032042734     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585620     Document Type: Article

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