New family forms

Families Count: Effects on Child and Adolescent Development

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 273-298

  Golombok, Susan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511616259.012     Document Type: Chapter

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