Marital equality and satisfaction in stay-at-home mother and stay-at-home father families

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 337-354

  Zimmerman, Toni Schindler ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Marital equality; Stay at home father; Stay at home mother

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034257452     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007816725358     Document Type: Article

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