Mexican American adolescents' family caregiving: Selection effects and longitudinal associations with adjustment

Family Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 562-577

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family caregiving; Family obligations; Mexican American adolescents; Siblings of teenage parents; Teenage parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949109533     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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