Infants who stay in foster care: child characteristics and permanency outcomes of legally free children first placed as infants

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-106

  Kemp, ^a   Bodonyi, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption; child welfare; foster care; infants; permanency planning

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; GENDER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE;

EID: 84937320043     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2000.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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