Why abstinent adolescents report they have not had sex: Understanding sexually resilient youth

Family Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Blinn Pike, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Resilience; Sexual abstinence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033434388     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585640     Document Type: Article

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