The 'family-work project': Children's and parents' experiences of working parenthood

Families, Relationships and Societies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-222

  Harden, Jeni ^a   MacLean, Alice ^b   Backett Milburn, Kathryn ^a   Cunningham Burley, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caring; Childhood; Moral narratives; Time; Working parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880951006     PISSN: 20467435     EISSN: 20467443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/204674312X645529     Document Type: Article

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