Salvaging an evaluation from the swampy lowland

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-209

  Fitzgerald, Joan ^a   Rasheed, Janice Matthews ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Evaluation; Inner city; Low income fathers; Mixed method evaluation; Non custodial fathers; Paternal involvement programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041173339     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7189(98)00011-1     Document Type: Article

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