Religion and adolescent sexual behavior

Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-85

  Regnerus, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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