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How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children grow up strong? This question is the impetus and underpinning rationale of this book. Growing up strong is a multidimensional and multilayered concept that intrinsically extends across histories, our contemporary contexts and our futures. The authors within this book capture some of these varying facets of growing up strong across a range of contexts that are critically important to the future of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children. Using data from the first six waves of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), a globally unique longitudinal dataset, each chapter presents a high level analysis of different sets of variables.
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The terms LSIC and Footprints in Time are used interchangeably in this and subsequent chapters to describe the study.
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Walter, M., Martin, K.L., Bodkin-Andrews, G. (2017). Introduction. In: Walter, M., Martin, K., Bodkin-Andrews, G. (eds) Indigenous Children Growing Up Strong. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53435-4_1
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