Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in Britain and the United States

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-228

  Clarke, Lynda ^c   Cooksey, Elizabeth C ^a   Verropoulou, Georgia ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CUSTODY; FAMILY SIZE; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NEWBORN; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032063010     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004053     Document Type: Article

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