title: Adolescent girls in need of protection.
abstract: This descriptive study of 120 girls removed temporarily from parental care during early adolescence raises questions regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of current intervention strategies. The findings suggest that clinical and legal efforts on behalf of girls such as these, who have been victims of neglect, deprivation, and abuse, are likely to remain unsatisfactory in the absence of a broad societal commitment to the needs and rights of children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002649:Child Abuse; D002669:Child Welfare; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009864:Ontario; D011330:Prisons; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012419:Runaway Behavior; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology