A single father's shopping bag: Purchasing decisions in single-father families

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 605-622

  Ziol Guest, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Institute for Children and Poverty   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption bundles; Expenditures; Investments in children; Single fathers

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249185843     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X08331022     Document Type: Article

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