Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 806-818

  Sandberg Thoma, Sara E ^a   Snyder, Anastasia R ^a   Jang, Bohyun Joy ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Home leaving; Home returning; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997; Transition to adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928419455     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12183     Document Type: Article

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