Filial obligations in post-divorce stepfamilies

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 1-27

  Coleman, Marilyn ^a   Ganong, Lawrence H ^a   Hans, Jason D ^b   Sharp, Elizabeth A ^c   Rothrauff, Tanja C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult children of divorce; Divorced parents; Kinship and divorce; Stepfamilies

Indexed keywords

EID: 32444451614     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J087v43n03_01     Document Type: Article

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