Risk and resilience in children coping with their parents’ divorce and remarriage

Resilience and Vulnerability: Adaptation in the Context of Childhood Adversities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 182-212

  Hetherington, E Mavis ^a   Elmore, Anne Mitchell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511615788.010     Document Type: Chapter

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