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Warehime, M.N., Bass, L.E., Chapple, C.L. (2016). Child Neglect. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_41-2

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