Parenting as Relationship: A Framework for Assessment and Practice

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-89

  Tuttle, Amy R ^a   Knudson Martin, Carmen ^b   Kim, Lana ^b  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Culture; Focus; Gender; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858590656     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01383.x     Document Type: Article

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