Mothers' reports of nonresident fathers' involvement with their children: Revisiting the relationship between child support payment and visitation

Family Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-64

  Huang, Chien Chung ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Child support payments; Divorced fathers; Father involvement; Visitation; Zero inflated Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849087546     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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