Child welfare involvement among children in homeless families

Child Welfare

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 423-436

  Park, Jung Min ^a   Metraux, Stephen ^b   Brodbar, Gabriel ^c,d   Culhane, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Admin for Children's Services   (United States)

^d Dartington i   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; PUBLIC HOUSING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 9944231868     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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