The effects of marital and parent-child conflicts on other family members: Grandmothers and grown children

Family Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-143

  Hall, Edie Jo ^b   Cummings, E Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anger; Conflict; Extended family; Families; Grandparents; Marital relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116170     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585037     Document Type: Article

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