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STAY-AT-HOME FATHERING

A strategy for balancing work and home in Canadian and Belgian families

Andrea DoucetCorrespondence[email protected]
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Laura MerlaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 455-473 | Published online: 07 Nov 2007

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