Subsidized guardianship: Testing an idea whose time has finally come

Social Work Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 145-158

  Testa, Mark F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Experimental design; Kinship care; Permanence; Subsidized guardianship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040675570     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/26.3.145     Document Type: Article

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