Effectively serving low-income fathers of color

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 29-50

  Behnke, Andrew O ^a   Allen, William D ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HealingBonds (Private Practice)   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Applied; Best practices; Context; Ethnic minority; Fatherhood; Latino

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948947342     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J002v42n02_03     Document Type: Article

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