Children home alone unsupervised: Modeling parental decisions and associated factors in Botswana, Mexico, and Vietnam

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 312-323

  Ruiz Casares, Mónica ^a   Heymann, Jody ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Botswana; Childcare; Decision model; Home alone; Mexico; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SAFETY; CHILD WELFARE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; LONELINESS; MALE; MEXICO; PARENTAL DECISION; PARENTING EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIET NAM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; BOTSWANA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 67349186311     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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