Parental involvement with adolescents' education: Do daughters or sons get more help?

Adolescence

Volumn 35, Issue 137, 2000, Pages 29-44

  Carter, Rebecca S ^a   Wojtkiewicz, Roger A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

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