Children's home responsibilities: Factors predicting children's household work

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 789-794

  Cheal, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Gender; Home responsibilities; Household work; Time availability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347302943     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2003.31.8.789     Document Type: Article

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