Context-based parenting in infancy: Background and conceptual issues

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 437-472

  Combs Orme, Terri ^a   Wilson, Elizabeth E ^a   Cain, Daphne S ^b   Page, Timothy ^b   Kirby, Laura D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b LA State Univ Coll of Social Wk

Author keywords

Child Development; Infant Development; Infants; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543044439     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CASW.0000003138.32550.a2     Document Type: Review

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