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Lone Mothers and Their Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts*
Affiliation:
Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, Hornsey Rise Child and Family Therapy Service and The Whittington Hospital, London N19
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 167 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 159 - 162
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Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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