Children's Post-Divorce Living Arrangements and School Engagement: Financial Resources, Parent-Child Relationship, Selectivity and Stress.
Children's post-divorce living arrangements have become increasingly heterogeneous the past decades, because of the rise in shared residence and stepfamily formation. This study investigates how post-divorce living arrangements (i.e. the combination between residential arrangement and stepparent pre...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 26; no. 12; pp. 3425 - 3439 |
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