Family Complexity: Setting the Context

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-11

  Carlson, Marcia J ^a   Meyer, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

family change; family complexity; multiple partner fertility; union instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902160409     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214531378     Document Type: Article

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