Parental monitoring of children's behavior: Variation across stepmother, stepfather, and two-parent biological families

Family Relations

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Fisher, Philip A ^a   Leve, Leslie D ^b   O'Leary, Catherine C ^b   Leve, Craig ^b  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biological families; Monitoring; Parent; Risk; Slepfamilies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037251871     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2003.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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