Children's exposure to parental and familial adversities Findings from a population survey of Australians

Family Matters

Volumn 84, Issue , 2010, Pages 43-52

  Olesen, Sarah C ^a   Macdonald, Elspeth ^a   Raphael, Beverley ^b   Butterworth, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

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