South African mixed-race children's and mothers' judgments and reasoning about children's nurturance and self-determination rights

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 517-535

  Ruck, Martin D ^a   Tenenbaum, Harriet ^b   Willenberg, Ingrid ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's rights; Nurturance; Self determination; Social reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960449539     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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