Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-320

  Regnerus, Mark ^a   Uecker, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Emerging adulthood; Marriage; Premarital sex; Relationships; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922444599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743285.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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