Married and cohabiting parents' relationship stability: A focus on race and ethnicity

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1345-1366

  Osborne, Cynthia ^a   Manning, Wendy D ^b   Smock, Pamela J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child well being; Cohabitation; Family demography; Family structure; Marriage; Union dissolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048969094     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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