"The love that I was missing": Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-54

  Aparicio, Elizabeth ^a   Pecukonis, Edward V ^a   O'Neale, Shalita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Hope Forward   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Foster care; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Qualitative; Teenage motherhood; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922612132     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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