Family structure and children's psychosocial outcomes

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1600-1624

  Wu, Zheng ^a   Hou, Feng ^b   Schimmele, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children's behavior; Cohabitation; Family structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149120798     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X08322818     Document Type: Article

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