"Contact irregular": A qualitative analysis of the impact of visiting patterns of natural parents on foster placements

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-45

  Browne, Deborah ^a   Moloney, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Attachment; Foster child; Natural parents; Visiting patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346091135     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2002.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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