Being related: How children define and create kinship

Childhood

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-460

  Mason, Jennifer ^a,b   Tipper, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Families; Kinship; Relatedness; Relatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649220647     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208097201     Document Type: Article

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