Poor single mothers with young children: Mastery, relations with nonresident fathers, and child outcomes

Social Work Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-106

  Jackson, Aurora P ^a   Choi, Jeong Kyun ^a   Franke, Todd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mastery beliefs; Mother father relations; Parenting; Preschool children's development; Single mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349646271     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/33.2.95     Document Type: Article

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