An implicit ambivalence-indifference dimension of childbearing desires in the National Survey of Family Growth

Demographic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 203-242

  Miller, Warren B ^a   Jones, Jo ^a   Pasta, David J ^a  

^a Family Research Institute   (United States)

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EID: 85006856658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.7     Document Type: Article

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