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Divorce and remarriage: effects on the elderly population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Frances K Goldscheider*
Affiliation:
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
*
Professor Frances K Goldscheider, Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

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Social and psychological gerontology
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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