Quality of care attributions to employed versus stay-at-home mothers

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-193

  Shpancer, Noam ^a   Melick, Katherine M ^a   Sayre, Pamela S ^a   Spivey, Aria T ^a  

^a OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Care attributes; Employed mothers; Stay at home mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349279950     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430500039531     Document Type: Article

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