Policy and rhetoric: The growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain

Analysing Families: Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-182

  Clarke, Lynda ^a   Roberts, Ceridwen ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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