The racial geography of child welfare: Toward a new research paradigm

Child Welfare

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-150

  Roberts, Dorothy E ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Health Research and Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICS; TRUST; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIALIZATION; TRUST; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 58149394953     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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