Youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children: Results from two longitudinal studies

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1671-1697

  East, Patricia L ^a   Weisner, Thomas S ^b   Slonim, Ashley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent mothers; Adolescents; African Americans; Caregiving; Mexican Americans; Sibling caretaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350676853     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09340144     Document Type: Article

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