Children in Self-Care: Homeless in the Afternoons or Socially Provided for?Footnote¹

1 This study was carried out with the Self-Care Research Team including Professors Janine Beaudichon, Pierre Coslin, and Annick Cartron of the Laboratoire de Psychologie du Developpement et de L’educatfan de Uenfant, Universite Paris V, La Sorbonne and was funded by the French Ministry of Education.

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