Parenting practices and school dropout: A longitudinal study

Family Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 125-145

  Blondal, Kristjana S ^b   Adalbjarnardottir, Sigrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b NONE

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