Divorced parents' qualitative and quantitative reports of children's living arrangements

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 385-397

  Lin, I Fen ^a   Schaeffer, Nora Cate ^b   Seltzer, Judith A ^c   Tuschen, Kay L ^d  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d 217 Williams Hall ^*

Author keywords

Children; Divorced parents; Household composition; Living arrangements; Measurement errors; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442712792     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2004.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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