Family Foster Care: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater

Children Australia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 217-221

  McSherry, Dominic ^a   Fargas Malet, Montserrat ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

early parenting; educational achievement; foster care; juvenile offending; mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021779419     PISSN: 20497776     EISSN: 10350772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/cha.2017.23     Document Type: Review

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