The Baby Boomers and Their Parents: Cohort Influences and Intergenerational Ties

The Baby Boomers Grow Up: Contemporary Perspectives on Midlife

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 237-259

  Fingerman, Karen ^a   Dolbin MacNab, Megan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79952362164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315820958-19     Document Type: Chapter

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