Racial and ethnic differences in the role of cohabitation in premarital childbearing

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-77

  Manning, Wendy D ^a   Landale, Nancy S ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Ethnicity; Premarital childbearing; Race; Single motherhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040689021     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353377     Document Type: Article

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