Stability and Change in Family Structure and Maternal Health Trajectories.

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Published in Am Sociol Rev on April 01, 2008

Authors

Sarah O Meadows1, Sara S McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Author Affiliations

1: Princeton University.

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