Maternal conjugal multiplicity and child development in Rural Jamaica

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 495-505

  Dreher, Melanie ^a   Hudgins, Rebekah ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AnthroEval Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Ethnography; Father absence; Jamaica West Indies; Maternal conjugal behavior; Single parent families

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149307321     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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