Expectations and the economic bar to marriage among low-income couples

Unmarried Couples with Children

Volumn 9781610441865, Issue , 2007, Pages 84-103

  Gibson Davis, Christina M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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