Low-income families’ child-care experiences: Meeting the needs of children and families

From Welfare to Child Care: What Happens to Young Children When Single Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-170

  Coley, Rebekah Levine ^a   Li Grining, Christine P ^b   Chase Lansdale, P Lindsay ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University ^*

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84919566884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203759912     Document Type: Chapter

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