Single Mothers Raising Children with "Male-Positive" Attitudes

Family Process

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-76

  Doherty, William J ^a   Craft, Shonda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward men; Fathers; Single mothers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD REARING; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SINGLE PARENT;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD REARING; COMMUNICATION; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEN; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; SINGLE PARENT; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY;

EID: 79952099556     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01346.x     Document Type: Article

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