What is happening to satisfaction and quality of relationships between step/grandparents and step/grandchildren?

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 117-133

  Christensen, Faline Bateman ^a   Smith, Thomas A ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grandchild; Grandparent; Relationship quality; Satisfaction; Stepfamily; Stepgrandchild; Stepgrandparent

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009644841     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J087v37n01_07     Document Type: Article

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