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Complicated lives : girls, parents, drugs, and juvenile justice
Title:
Complicated lives : girls, parents, drugs, and juvenile justice
Author:
Lopez, Vera, 1971- author.
ISBN:
9780813586557

9780813586540
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Physical Description:
vii, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
The Rutgers series in childhood studies

Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Contents:
Introduction -- Growing up in a "dysfunctional" family -- Mothers' little helpers -- Daddy's little girl: feeling rejected, abandoned, and unloved -- Looking for love in all the wrong places -- Doing drugs: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Parents' attempts to intervene on behalf of drug-using daughters -- Property of the state: locked up, locked out, and in need of treatment -- Moving beyond the individual toward programmatic, systemic, and policy solutions.