A Seven-Year Investigation of Marital Expectations and Marriage Among Urban, Low-Income, African American Adolescent Mothers

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-40

  Oberlander, Sarah E ^a   Agostini, Wendy R Miller ^b   Houston, Avril Melissa ^c   Black, Maureen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent parenting; grandmother; marital expectations; marriage; multigenerational household

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77649251060     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018075     Document Type: Article

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