‘She’s 16 years old and there’s boys calling over to the house’: An exploratory study of sexual socialization in Latino families

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 295-310

  Raffaelli, Marcela ^a   Ontai, Lenna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0038770804     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050152484722     Document Type: Article

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