Fatherhood as a transformative process unexpected successes among high risk fathers

Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 211-232

  Florsheim, Paul ^a   Ngu, Le Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent parents; fatherhood; risk and resilience; young fathers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889965924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-26025-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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