Reproductive traits following a parent-child separation trauma during childhood: A natural experiment during world war II

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-351

  Pesonen, Anu Katriina ^a   Räikkönen, Katri ^a   Heinonen, Kati ^a   Kajantie, Eero ^b   Forsén, Tom ^b   Eriksson, Johan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH RATE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DENMARK; DIVORCE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; ONSET AGE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; WAR;

ANXIETY, SEPARATION; DATA COLLECTION; DENMARK; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; WORLD WAR II; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43449133327     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20735     Document Type: Article

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