Marriage and Other Partnered Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood

Handbook of Families and Aging, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-123

  Bookwala, Jamila ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

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