Parents' discord and divorce, parent-child relationships and subjective well-being in early adulthood: is feeling close to two parents always better than feeling close to one?

Social Forces

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1105-1124

  Sobolewski, Juliana M ^a   Amato, Paul R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249720485     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2007.0056     Document Type: Article

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