Assessing the impact of community marriage policies® on county divorce rates

Family Relations

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 495-503

  Birch, Paul James ^b   Weed, Stan E ^a   Olsen, Joseph ^b  

^a Institute for Research and Evaluation   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Divorce; Initiative; Marriage; Marriage initiatives; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644246794     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0197-6664.2004.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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