Marriageable women: A focus on participants in a community healthy marriage program

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-102

  Manning, Wendy D ^a   Trella, Deanna ^a   Lyons, Heidi ^a   Du Toit, Nola Cora ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Low income families; Marriage; Marriage enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952042175     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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