Mothers' Differential Treatment of Their Adolescent Childbearing and Nonchildbearing Children: Contrasts between and Within Families

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 384-396

  East, Patricia L ^a   Jacobson, Leanne J ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; SIBLINGS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141653977     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.17.3.384     Document Type: Article

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