Siblings, parents, and partners: Family relationships within a longitudinal community study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1025-1037

  Dunn, Judy ^a   Deater Deckard, Kirby ^a   Pickering, Kevin ^a   Golding, Jean ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Genetic Devmtl Psychiat R ^*

Author keywords

Divorce; Family structure; Gender; Marital relationships; Mothers; Siblings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DIVORCE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SIBLING;

EID: 0032819738     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00521     Document Type: Article

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