Unmarried couples with children: Hoping for love and the white picket Fence

Unmarried Couples with Children

Volumn 9781610441865, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-21

  England, Paula ^a   Edin, Kathryn ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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