Trends in Children's Family Instability, 1995–2010

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1173-1183

  Brown, Susan L ^a   Stykes, J Bart ^b   Manning, Wendy D ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; cohabitation; ethnicity; family formation; marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971373893     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12311     Document Type: Article

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