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Emotional Abuse: The Hidden Form of Maltreatment
This paper examines the different causes and types of emotional abuse, and looks at the emotional abuse characteristics of physical abuse and domestic violence.
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Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Spring 1997
Family Meals and Disordered Eating in Adolescents: Longitudinal Findings From Project EAT
This longitudinal study of adolescent girls found that sharing in family meals helps protect against disordered eating behaviours in teen girls.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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American Medical Association
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January 2008
Good Fathering: Father and Son Perceptions of What It Means To Be A Good Father
This study asked fathers and sons to list qualities that good fathers possess.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Mens Studies Press
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March 22, 2006
Fathers’ Experiences in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Search for Control
This study examines the experiences of fathers with children in a neonatal intensive care unit and reports that fathers feel a loss of control.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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February 2008
Make a Difference: Talk to Your Child About Alcohol
This paper is a guide to help parents discuss alcohol with their youth.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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2002
Diminishing Interest in Motherhood and Human Ecology
This paper uses evidence to suggest that the mother-child relationship is one of the most important of all human relationships.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society
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May 2007
Background for Community Level Work on Educational Adjustment in Adolescence: Reviewing the Literature on Contributing Factors
This paper looks at students' educational adjustment by examining academic performance, achievement motivators, school engagement, and educational goals and expectations.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Child Trends
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December 2001
Welfare Reform, Fertility, and Father Involvement
This article examines the unique role that fathers play in their children's lives, and demonstrates that public policies have considerable influence on childbearing patterns and a father's involvement with his children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Future of Children
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2002
The Effect of Peer Support on Postpartum Depression: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
This study provided mothers at risk for post-partum depression with peer support over the telephone and compared depressive symptoms in this group with those in a control group.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Canadian Psychiatric Association
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March 01, 2003
All Together Now: How Families are Affected by Depression and Manic Depression
This paper discusses the impact that depression has on families and, more specifically, how parental depression affects children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Health Canada
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1999
Australian Social Trends 1995: Family - Family Functioning: Family Support
This article provides a statistical overview of family life in Australia including parental involvement, time spent with children, care of elderly parents, and financial support for children living at home or on their own.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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January 05, 2001
Understanding the Early Years: Early Childhood Development in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and other national data sources, this report assesses Saskatoon children’s outcomes in terms of family background, family processes, and community factors and discerns how to improve the impact of these factors.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Human Resources Development Canada
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November 01, 2002
Ten Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Gradients and Community Differences in Children’s Developmental Outcomes
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and other sources, this paper studies the impact that family and community factors (such as number of siblings, and family cohesiveness), and social support have on an individual’s socioeconomic status.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Human Resources Development Canada
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February 01, 2003
When Children Cannot Return Home: Adoption and Guardianship
This article discusses efforts on the part of governments and welfare agencies to find permanent, stable homes for foster children through adoption and guardianship.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Future of Children
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2004
Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society
This report examines the ethical issues facing caregivers and policymakers in an aging society with particular concern for patients with dimentia.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The President’s Council on Bioethics
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September 2005
Youth Depressive Symptoms and Changes in Relationships with Parents and Peers.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, this study examines the link between depressive symptoms and relational change with peers and parents during adolescence.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Statistics Canada
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February 2005
The Assets of Canadian Families, 1997
This paper examines families involved with family service agencies, and assesses the positive changes that are occurring as a result of these services.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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April 01, 1999
The Role of Parents in Children's Psychological Development
This article discusses three ways that parents affect their children's psychological development: direct interaction, emotional identification, and transmission of family stories.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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July 1999
Describing the Structure and Needs of Families in South Africa: Towards the Development of a National Policy Framework for Families
This report contains a compilation of data pertaining to South African families.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Child, Youth and Family Development Research Programme of the HSRC
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September 2004
Promoting the Emotional Well-Being of Children and Families: Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children - An Action Guide for Policymakers
This paper discusses the need to improve family situations in which children are not getting appropriate emotional support for healthy development.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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January 2002
Legal Services Commission Annual Report 2001/02
This paper discusses the Commission's concerns over the continuing rise in family and social welfare law costs, as well as its objectives to help families and children get quality legal services and access to justice.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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TSO (The Stationery Office)
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July 10, 2003
Emotional Support From Parents Early in Life, Aging, and Health
This article explores the relationship between parental provision of emotional support during childhood and an individual's health in adulthood.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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American Psychological Association
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2004
Background for Community-Level Work on Emotional Well-being in Adolescence: Reviewing the Literature on Contributing Factors
This paper examines the importance of adolescent emotional regulation and coping, affect and mood, and feelings about self, and discusses individual, family, peer, school, and neighbourhood factors that are associated with positive mental and emotional health for adolescents .
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Child Trends
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December 01, 2001
Eating disorders in adolescents: Principles of diagnosis and treatment
This article focuses on diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and discusses the role the family can have in contributing to the development of, and/or the recovery from, an eating disorder.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Canadian Paediatric Society
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1998 (Reaffirmed February 2004)
Emotional Abuse
This paper discusses the various types of emotional abuse and their impact on women, children, and the elderly in terms of psychological and social development, behaviour, and health.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Health Canada
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April 01, 1996
Functional Status, Living Arrangements, and the Social Context of Disability
This study explores the relationship between family structure and rates of cognitive, physical and emotional disability among middle-aged adults.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Population Research Center
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1998
Understanding Aggression with Adolescent Girls: Implications for Policy and Practice
This paper discusses the results of a study on adolescent girls and their experiences with physical and verbal fights, both with their parents and friends.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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University of Western Ontario
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2001
Strengths in Families: Accentuating the Positive
This paper explores the definition, state, structure, and function of the family, as well as variations on the traditional family unit, including a discussion of stepfamilies, marriage relationships, and homosexual parenting.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Vanier Institute of the Family
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1998
Family Relationships and Intergenerational Exchange Later in Life
This paper examines intergenerational family relationships, including emotional and financial support, the care of elderly parents, and dependant children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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July 1998
Do Good Partners Make Good Parents? Relationship Quality and Parenting in Married and Unmarried Families
This study demonstrates that positive mother-father relationships are associated with higher quality parent-child relationships.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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Revised June 2004
Parental Care: The Latest, Greatest Challenge for Baby Boomers
This article analyzes the baby boomers' challenge: caring for their elderly parents or other loved ones.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Ipsos-Reid
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May 01, 2003
The Absence of Father: Effects on Children's Development and Family Functioning
This article aims to examine the long term effect on children due to the father's absence.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The National Center on Fathers and Families
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August 01, 1995
The Family Lives of Young People
This article examines the family lives of young people and finds that, on the whole, most adolescents have positive family relationships.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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March 01, 2001
Family Strengths: Often Overlooked, But Real
This research brief examines measurements of family strength used by national family surveys.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Child Trends
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August 01, 2002
2001 Family Time Report: It's Time for Families
This report presents information regarding the quality and quantity of time that families spend together in the state of Washington, and discusses various factors that affect this time.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Families Northwest
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November 01, 2001
Family Reunification
This article looks at patterns of children's reunification with their biological family after being placed in foster care.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Future of Children
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2004
Assessing Family Policy in Canada: A New Deal for Families and Children
This research paper analyzes Canadian family policy, focusing on how current family policy affects public support of Canadian families ...
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Institute for Research on Public Policy
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June 01, 2003
For Better or For Worse: A Look at Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family Breakdown
This paper discusses marriage and the benefits of marriage from a Biblical perspective, ...
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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CARE
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June 01, 2000
Women Speak: The Value of Community Based Research on Woman Abuse
This study examines the method of community-based research on woman abuse used by the Ontario Rural Woman Abuse Study (ORWAS).
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Department of Justice Canada
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2000
Family Structure and Mental Health
Using previously collected data, the author focuses attention on social and psychological processes that point to new methods of analysis in the areas of stress and family structure, poverty in single-parent households and health, and the impact of childhood experiences on subsequent family structure.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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CMHS/ Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program
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June 01, 2003
Stressful Family Lives: Child and Parent Well-being
This paper assesses the level of stress families face based on food security, crowding, access to health care, and ability to make ends meet.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Urban Institute
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June 01, 2000
Legal Services Commission Annual Report 2001/02
This paper discusses the Community Legal Service program, which improves access to justice for those most in need, such as families and children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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TSO (The Stationery Office)
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July 22, 2002
Families and Schools Together Canada
This article illustrates the social success of children as a result of a comprehensive partnership between families, schools and community workers.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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May 01, 2002
Grandparenthood in Canada
This paper discusses grandparenthood, including the roles, rights and responsibilities of grandparents and their emotional, financial and material support of their grandchildren.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Vanier Institute of the Family
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2004
The Family: A Critical Factor for Corrections
This paper reviews existing literature on the important role that family plays in helping released offenders build a non-offending, stable life.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Family and Corrections Network
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November 01, 1987
Home Is Where the Heart Is
This article discusses the work-family balance in an era where families are able to work from home.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
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March 01, 2002
Providing Better Opportunites for Older Children in the Child Welfare System
This article provides an analysis of the unique challenges faced by older children who are in foster care, and suggests ways in which to help them in their transition from foster care to independent adulthood.
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Category:
Family Relations > Emotional Support
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The Future of Children
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2004
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