Chinese lunar birth timing in Singapore: New concerns for child quality amidst multicultural modernity

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 784-795

  Goodkind, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth timing; Ethnicity; Fertility; Modernization theory; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040063757     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353736     Document Type: Article

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