A weak embrace: Popular and scholarly depictions of single-parent families, 1900 - 1998

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-225

  Usdansky, Margaret L ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Single parent families; Social change; Social trends; Sociohistorical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249172445     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00592.x     Document Type: Article

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