Child maltreatment investigations among aboriginal and non-aboriginal families in Canada

Violence Against Women

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 901-916

  Blackstock, Cindy ^a   Trocmé, Nico ^b   Bennett, Marlyn ^a  

^a First Nations Child and Family Caring Society

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Aboriginal families; Child maltreatment; Child neglect intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 12544252069     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204266312     Document Type: Article

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