The role of gender in middle-age children’s responses to parent death

Kinship Bereavement in Later Life: A Special Issue of "OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying"

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 43-65

  Moss, Miriam S ^a   Resch, Nancy ^a   Moss, Sidney Z ^a  

^a POLISHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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