Supporting low-income families with young children: Patterns and correlates of service use

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 864-872

  Spielberger, Julie ^a   Lyons, Sandra J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Partners for Our Children   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Family; Immigrants; Maternal functioning; Service use; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349245495     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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