New Partners, More Kids: Multiple-Partner Fertility in the United States

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-86

  Guzzo, Karen Benjamin ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

family complexity; multiple partner fertility; nonmarital childbearing; repartnering; unintended fertility; union instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902134913     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214525571     Document Type: Article

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