Parental Nurturance and Identification with Own Father and Mother: The Reproduction of Nurturant Parenting

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-221

  Ahlberg, Christian ^a   Kenneth Sandnabba, N ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fathering; Identification; Marriage; Nurturance; Parenting; Role modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001111039     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199812)7:4<211::aid-edp183>3.0.co;2-h     Document Type: Article

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