"not the romantic, all happy, coochy coo experience": A qualitative analysis of interactions on an irish parenting web site

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-27

  Brady, Ellen ^a   Guerin, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Parenthood; Parenting; Social support networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952020087     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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