Drug Addiction is a Scourge on the Earth and my Grandchildren are its Victims: the Tough Love and Resilient Growth Exhibited by Grandparents Raising the Children of Drug-Dependent Mothers.
Parental drug-usage is a risk factor for child neglect. Maternal drug-dependency, in particular, has far reaching implications for the mother, her children, and the grandparents who are left to rear the children when the mother's drug-dependency prohibits her from doing so. Thus, drug-related matern...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 937 - 952 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2016
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