Failures-to-launch and boomerang kids: Contemporary determinants of leaving and returning to the parental home

Social Forces

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 863-890

  South, Scott J ^a   Lei, Lei ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84951798763     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sov064     Document Type: Article

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