Attitudes toward marriage among the urban middle-class in Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Williams, Lindy ^a   Guest, Michael Philip ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYPOTHESIS; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHILIPPINES; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THAILAND; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM;

EID: 27744489879     PISSN: 00472328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jcfs.36.2.163     Document Type: Article

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