Reporting bad results: The ethical responsibility of presenting abused women's parenting practices in a negative light

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-367

  Buchbinder, Eli ^b   Eisikovits, Zvi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

abused women; child protection; domestic violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PROTECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHICAL DILEMMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; OFFENDER; RESPONSIBILITY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 85050782192     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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