Cooperation, Conflict, or Disengagement? Coparenting Styles and Father Involvement in Fragile Families

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-342

  Waller, Maureen R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coparenting styles; Father involvement; Fragile families

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY CONFLICT; FAMILY SIZE; FATHER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY CONFLICT; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLEGITIMACY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTING; SINGLE PERSON;

EID: 84866354330     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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