Bereavement and divorce: Does the death of a child affect parents' marital stability?

Family Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-86

  Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Child mortality; Dissolution; Divorce; Norway; Register data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890172665     PISSN: 19424620     EISSN: 19424639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2013.821762     Document Type: Article

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