Poverty and Decision Making in Child Welfare and Protection: Deepening the Bias-Need Debate

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2161-2175

  Bradt, Lieve ^a   Roets, Griet ^a   Roose, Rudi ^a   Rosseel, Yves ^a   Bouverne De Bie, Maria ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Child welfare and protection; decision making; logistic regression; poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947773958     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcu086     Document Type: Article

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