Grandmothers and mothers: An inter generational comparison of child-rearing practices with pre-schoolers

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-55

  Honig, Alice S ^a   Deters, Kathleen ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child rearing; Mothers grandmothers; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346762676     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199603)5:1<47::aid-edp114>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Article

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