"Doing family ambivalence": Nuclear and extended families in single mothers' lives

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 804-811

  Sarkisian, Natalia ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33749548254     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00295.x     Document Type: Note

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