Living together unmarried: What do we know about cohabiting families?

Handbook of Marriage and the Family: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 255-273

  Rose Greenland, Fiona ^a   Smock, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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