The "flight from marriage" in South-East and East Asia

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Jones, Gavin W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDONESIA; JAPAN; KOREA; MARRIAGE; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION RESEARCH; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN; THAILAND; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM;

EID: 18144414614     PISSN: 00472328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jcfs.36.1.93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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