Parenting, Race, and Socioeconomic Status: Links to School Readiness

Family Relations

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 657-670

  Dotterer, Aryn M ^a   Iruka, Iheoma U ^b   Pungello, Elizabeth ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parenting; Race; School readiness; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865852455     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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