The Intergenerational Transmission of Couple Instability

Human Development across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 171-203

  Hetherington, E Mavis ^b   Elmore, Anne Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 77952489670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/9780511808302.008     Document Type: Chapter

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