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Women Caring for Children at Home: Challenges for family and child welfare practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

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Caring is the central activity for many women who care for children with disabilities and other dependent relatives and it circumscribes virtually all of the other activities they carry out. This paper will compare the daily experiences of such women (who have been participants in the author’s recent research into home-based care) with what has been written in social work literature about women who ‘care’.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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