The Dynamics of Family Trouble: Middle-Class Parents Whose Children Have Problems

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 371-401

  Francis, Ara A ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

family; parenthood; social order; suffering; trouble

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863426078     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241611426142     Document Type: Article

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