Foster care
- Publisher
- Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
104 p. : 24 cm
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Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book
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