Coparenting cooperation and child adjustment in low-income mother-grandmother and mother-father families

Family Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-170

  Barnett, Melissa A ^a   Scaramella, Laura V ^b   McGoron, Lucy ^b   Callahan, Kristin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coparenting; Early childhood; Fathers; Grandmothers; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868219952     PISSN: 19424620     EISSN: 19424639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2011.642479     Document Type: Article

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