Father involvement in immigrant and ethnically diverse families from the prenatal period to the second year: Prediction and mediating mechanisms

Sex Roles

Volumn 60, Issue 7-8 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 496-509

  Tamis Lemonda, Catherine S ^a   Kahana Kalman, Ronit ^b   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Father involvement; Immigrant families; Infancy; Mother father relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749118887     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9593-9     Document Type: Article

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