Culture, children's rights and child protection

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 345-358

  Welbourne, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child protection; Culture; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937380602     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.772     Document Type: Article

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