Relationship-specific investments, family chaos, and cohabitation dissolution following a nonmarital birth

Family Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 586-601

  Kamp Dush, Claire M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakup; Chaos; Cohabitation; Cohabitation dissolution; Relationship specific investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155155990     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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