Contexts of Mother-Child Separations in Homeless Families

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-176

  Barrow, Susan M ^a   Lawinski, Terese ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; HOMELESSNESS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 70350777579     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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