Recent decline in nonpaternity rates: A cross-temporal meta-analysis

Psychological Reports

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 799-811

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Haubner, Tanja ^a   Fisher, Maryanne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 60749128990     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.103.3.799-811     Document Type: Article

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