Low-Income Mothers as "Othermothers" to Their Romantic Partners' Children: Women's Coparenting in Multiple Partner Fertility Relationships

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 343-359

  Burton, Linda M ^a   Hardaway, Cecily R ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child Swapping; Coparenting; Low income Families; Multiple Partner Fertility; Othermothering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FRIEND; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; POVERTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866365453     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01401.x     Document Type: Article

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