The Tender Years

by Richard P. Barth, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Jill Duerr Berrick, et al.

Book Overview

The first few years of life are a time of unparalleled physical, intellectual, and emotional development. But they can also be a time of neglect and abuse: this is the period when children are most likely to suffer mistreatment by their parents, and most likely to be placed in foster care. Today most children entering the child welfare system are very young, and, in most large states, infants are the largest group of children entering foster care...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195114531
• ISBN13: 9780195114539
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"