Parent-child coresidence: Who moves in with whom and for whose needs?

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1022-1033

  Smits, Annika ^a   van Gaalen, Ruben I ^b   Mulder, Clara H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coresidence; Families in middle and later life; Intergenerational relations; Living arrangements; Western European families

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955163176     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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