Observing mother-child relationships across generations: Boundary patterns, attachment, and the transmission of caregiving

Family Process

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-374

  Kretchmar, Molly D ^a   Jacobvitz, Deborah B ^b  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036727669     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.41306.x     Document Type: Article

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