Parents' work, depressive symptoms, children, and family economic mobility: What can ethnography tell us?

Families in Society

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-350

  Iversen, Roberta Rehner ^a   Armstrong, Annie Laurie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Business Government Community Connections

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EID: 34948824784     PISSN: 10443894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1606/1044-3894.3643     Document Type: Article

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