Stopping the Cycle of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Call to Action to Focus on Pregnant and Parenting Youth in and Aging Out of the Foster Care System

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-50

  Geiger, Jennifer Mullins ^a   Schelbe, Lisa Ann ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging out of foster care; intergenerational transmission of child abuse and neglect; pregnancy and parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893843765     PISSN: 15548732     EISSN: 15548740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15548732.2013.824398     Document Type: Article

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