Homeless children and their families: The discards of the post-welfare era

Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 89-110

  Polakow, Valerie ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607669     Document Type: Chapter

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