Preventing child poverty: barriers and solutions

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 20-31

  Davies, Emma ^a   Crothers, Charles ^a   Hanna, Kirsten ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 79953095516     PISSN: 0112109X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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