Do Australian children have more problems today than twenty years ago?

Family Matters

Volumn 79, Issue , 2008, Pages 50-57

  Smart, Diana ^a   Sanson, Ann ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY STUDIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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