Four Decades of Literature on Native Canadian Child Welfare: Changing Themes.

Timpson, Joyce

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ERIC Number: EJ503664

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Publication Date: 1995

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Four Decades of Literature on Native Canadian Child Welfare: Changing Themes.

Timpson, Joyce

Child Welfare, v74 n3 p525-46 May-Jun 1995

Summarizes the academic and nonacademic literature on the provision of child welfare services to Canadian Native people, focusing on the impact of the contemporary political climate on such policy from the 1960s to the present. Recent literature on the subject stresses the need to examine the root socioeconomic causes for the problems facing Native peoples. (MDM)

Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Canada Natives, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Political Influences, Poverty, Public Policy, Social History, Social Science Research, Social Services, Welfare Agencies, Welfare Services

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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