Facilitating Stepfamily Education for Latinos

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-187

  Reck, Katie ^a   Higginbotham, Brian ^a   Skogrand, Linda ^a   Davis, Patricia ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnicity; Latino families; marriage; qualitative research; remarriage; step families

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859646858     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01494929.2011.631729     Document Type: Article

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