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WELFARE PARENT [2 records]

Record 1 2010-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
OBS

Information obtained from the Centre for Social Welfare Studies, Faculty of Social Works, Wilfrid Laurier University. The project was founded jointly by National Health and Welfare and the Laidlaw Foundation. The Centre for Social Welfare Studies designed and implemented the project, under the direction of the principal investigator

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

welfare mother: a woman who is on relief because she has small children and no husband to support them.

OBS

See single-parent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Voir famille monoparentale.

Spanish

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