How to Create an America that Saves Marriages

Journal of Psychology and Theology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 196-207

  McManus, Michael ^a   McManus, Harriet ^a  

^a Marriage Savers   (United States)

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EID: 0142231371     PISSN: 00916471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009164710303100304     Document Type: Review

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