There’s no place like home: The child’s right to family

Children's Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 137-162

  Aunos, Marjorie ^a   Feldman, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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