Family cohesion in the lives of Mexican American and European American parents

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1045-1059

  Behnke, Andrew O ^a   MacDermid, Shelley M ^b   Coltrane, Scott L ^c   Parke, Ross D ^c   Duffy, Sharon ^c   Widaman, Keith F ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnicity; Fatherhood; Hispanic Americans; Latinos; Parenting; Race; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849422423     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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