Social networks of children in single-parent families: Differences according to sex, age, socioeconomic status and housing-type and their associations with behavioural disturbances

Social Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-127

  Samuelsson, Margareta A K ^a  

^a Box 638 ^*  (Sweden)

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EID: 0031116008     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(95)00284-7     Document Type: Article

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