Citation

Bush M. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1980; 50(2): 239-255.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7361873

Abstract

This paper uses survey responses from 370 dependent children to examine claims made about the purposes of child welfare institutions. The data suggest that institutions are the least supportive form of surrogate care, that group homes share some of their defects, and that, in practice, neither are therapeutics environments.

Language: en