Rethinking "child placement": A reflective essay

Social Service Review

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 108-132

  Whittaker, James K ^a   Maluccio, Anthony N ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/324610     Document Type: Article

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