Child Support in Black and White: Racial Differentials in the Award and Receipt of Child Support during the 1980s

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Graham, John W ^b   Beller, Andrea H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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