Families in the life course: Interdependency of roles, role configurations, and pathways

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 858-879

  MacMillan, Ross ^a   Copher, Ronda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Latent class; Life course; Pathways; Roles; Teen parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745313331     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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