Paternity secrets: Why women don't tell

Journal of Family Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-248

  Turney, Lyn ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Mail H24 ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Folk Devil; Misattributed Paternity; Moral Panic; Paternal Confusion; Paternity Fraud; Paternity Secrets

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144458750     PISSN: 13229400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jfs.327.11.2.227     Document Type: Article

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