In Whose Best Interests? Theorising Family Life Following Parental Separation or Divorce

Undercurrents of Divorce

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 33-54

  Neale, Bren ^a   Smart, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85136365187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429242755-2     Document Type: Chapter

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