Cross-cultural attitudes toward abortion: Greeks versus Americans

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 402-424

  Bahr, Stephen J ^a   Marcos, Anastasios C ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abortion attitudes; Greek abortion attitudes; U.S. abortion attitudes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERVIEW; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ATTITUDE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21744443469     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X02250892     Document Type: Article

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