Measuring racial disparity in child welfare

Child Welfare

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 23-36

  Shaw, Terry V ^a   Putnam Hornstein, Emily ^b   Magruder, Joseph ^b   Needell, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOSTER CARE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOSTER HOME CARE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149391873     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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