Social support for divorced fathers' parenting: Testing a stress-buffering model

Family Relations

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-48

  DeGarmo, David S ^a   Patras, Joshua ^b   Eap, Sopagna ^c  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Fathers; Multiple method; Parenting; Social support; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849044952     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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