Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care 0415650674, 9780415650670

First Published in 2005. Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency,

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Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
0415650674, 9780415650670

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