Spare the rod, ruin the child?: First- and second-generation West Indian child-rearing practices

Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 72-97

  Waters, Mary C ^a   Sykes, Jennifer E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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