Number of children in the family as a predictor of parents' life satisfaction

Drustvena Istrazivanja

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 685-705

  Obradović, Josip ^a   Čudina Obradović, Mira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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