Behind the brotherhood: Rewards and challenges for wives of firefighters

Family Relations

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-435

  Regehr, Cheryl ^a   Dimitropoulos, Gina ^a   Bright, Elaine ^a   George, Sharon ^a   Henderson, Joscelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping; Family stress; Qualitative research; Work family issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844448581     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2005.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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