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Spicer, Paul – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1998
Draws on interviews with 50 urban American Indians to examine how foster-care placements compromised former foster children's ability to parent their own children. Discusses the influence of parental drinking on family life, leading to child neglect and foster-care placement; differing experiences of foster children raised by extended family…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Drinking, Early Experience