Postdivorce father-adolescent closeness

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1194-1209

  Scott, Mindy E ^a   Booth, Alan ^b   King, Valarie ^b   Johnson, David R ^b  

^a CHILD TRENDS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Divorce; Father child relations; Youth emergent adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148970917     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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