You're my parent but you're not: Dialectical tensions in stepchildren's perceptions about communicating with the nonresidential parent

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-48

  Braithwaite, Dawn O ^a   Baxter, Leslie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialectical Tensions; Family Communication; Nonresidential Parent

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745243290     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880500420200     Document Type: Article

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