Improving the Quality of Parent-child Contact in Separating Families

Parenting after Partnering: Containing Conflict after Separation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 11-28

  Lamb, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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