Advice from teens to teens about dating: Implications for healthy relationships

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-264

  Adams, Heidi L ^a   Williams, Lela Rankin ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Education; Gender; Mexican American; Qualitative; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650311509     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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