Sexual Risk-Taking Among Recently Emancipated Female Foster Youth: Sexual Trauma and Failed Family Reunification Experiences

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 819-829

  Gonzalez Blanks, Ana ^a   Yates, Tuppett M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; FOSTER CHILD; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, FOSTER; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85006150274     PISSN: 10508392     EISSN: 15327795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jora.12232     Document Type: Article

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