“How did you feel about it?” Children’s feelings about their parents’ divorce at the time and three and ten years later

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 19-36

  Burns, Ailsa ^a   Dunlop, Rosemary ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents and divorce; Children and divorce; Divorce over time; Divorced families; Parental divorce

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008857277     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J087v31n03_02     Document Type: Article

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