Dollars, Dependency, and Divorce: Four Perspectives on the Role of Wives' Income

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-74

  Rogers, Stacy J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Economic independence; Equal dependence; Wives' income

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642340276     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2004.00005.x     Document Type: Review

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