Explaining the Trend Towards Older First Time Mothers - A Life Course Perspective

Birth Rites and Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 239-254

  Daly, Irenee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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