Is the higher rate of parental child homicide in stepfamilies an effect of non-genetic relatedness?

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-259

  Temrin, Hans ^a   Nordlund, Johanna ^a   Rying, Mikael ^b   Tullberg, Birgitta S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alternative explanations; Characteristics of parents; Cinderella effect; Previous criminality; Violence

Indexed keywords

CINDERELLA;

EID: 79955566973     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.253     Document Type: Article

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