Examining the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatment using data from the Ontario incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect-2013 (OIS-2013)

Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lefebvre, Rachael ^a   Fallon, Barbara ^a   Wert, Melissa Van ^b   Filippelli, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Developmental outcomes; Economic hardship; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029679975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2076328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/bs7010006     Document Type: Article

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