Multiple partner maternity versus multiple partner paternity: What matters for family trajectories

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 90-124

  Monte, Lindsay M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marriage; Multiple partner fertility; Union dissolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953156707     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01494929.2011.564526     Document Type: Article

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