Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on June 12, 2008
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2008 33(7):797-798; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsn059
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Letter to the Editor: Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon
1Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University and 2Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University
All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Clarissa Holmes, Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, PO Box 842018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2018, USA. E-mail: cholmes@richmond.edu.
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We commend the authors of "Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon" from the May 2008 issue of Journal of Pediatric Psychology for addressing the gap in extant research concerning pediatric outcomes and stressors of single parents raising children with chronic illnesses. As noted by the study authors, the