Growing Up Without Siblings and Adult Sociability Behaviors

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1178-1204

  Trent, Katherine ^a   Spitze, Glenna ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

onlies; only child; siblings; sociability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960940967     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11398945     Document Type: Article

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