Socio-genealogical connectedness: on the role of gender and same-gender parenting in mitigating the effects of parental divorce

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-116

  Owusu Bempah, ^a   Howitt, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; contact; gender; parenting; socio genealogy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; DIVORCED PERSON; FEMALE; GENDER; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; WELLBEING;

EID: 84937325117     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2000.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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