Neighborhood context and the risk of childbearing among metropolitan-area black adolescents

American Sociological Review

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 571-585

  Sucoff, Clea A ^a   Upchurch, Dawn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; CHILDBEARING; FERTILITY TRENDS; METROPOLITAN AREA; POVERTY INCIDENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

USA;

EID: 0031693090     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657268     Document Type: Article

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