Patterns of marital change during the early childhood years: Parent personality, coparenting, and division-of-labor correlates

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 511-528

  Belsky, Jay ^a   Hsieh, Kuang Hua ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032261686     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.12.4.511     Document Type: Article

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