Listening to children: Gaining a perspective of the experiences of poverty and social exclusion from children and young people of single-parent families

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 429-436

  Walker, Janet ^a   Crawford, Karin ^a   Taylor, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b Single Parent Action Network (SPANUK)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children and young people of single parent families; Exclusion; Participation; Policy recommendations; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CYPRUS; GREECE; HUMAN; POVERTY; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CYPRUS; ENGLAND; GREECE; HUMANS; POVERTY; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 45749088915     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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