Reforming the social family contract: Public support for child rearing in the United States

For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 290-306

  England, Paula ^a   Folbre, Nancy ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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