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Children abandoned in long‐stay hospitals
Author(s) -
HOOD CATRIONA
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1976.tb00246.x
Subject(s) - abandonment (legal) , sample (material) , population , medicine , demography , environmental health , political science , sociology , law , chemistry , chromatography
SUMMARY This study, financed by the Buttle Trust, investigates some aspects of the problems of abandonment of children in hospital, employing a sample of sixty‐eight children from six selected hospitals, who meet a given definition of abandonment. Almost a fifth of the total population of children in the hospitals studied meet this definition; about a third of the sample are abandoned early in their lives, and for the remainder, admission itself appears to be a factor in abandonment.