Ethnicity and adolescent mothers' benefit from participation in home-visitation services

Family Relations

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-224

  Middlemiss, Wendy ^b   McGuigan, William ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescent mothers; Adolescent parenthood; At risk children and adolescents; Family intervention; Hispanic families

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844488646     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0197-6664.2005.00017.x     Document Type: Review

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