Navigating the "new" marriage market: How attitudes toward partner characteristics shape union formation

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 719-737

  Goldscheider, Frances ^a   Kaufman, Gayle ^b   Sassler, Sharon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Remarriage; Stepfamilies; Union formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749112537     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09331570     Document Type: Article

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