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Giving Voice to the Silence of Family Estrangement: Comparing Reasons of Estranged Parents and Adult Children in a Nonmatched Sample

Kristen CarrDepartment of Communication Studies, Texas Christian UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Amanda HolmanDepartment of Communication Studies, Creighton University
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Jenna AbetzDepartment of Communication, College of Charleston
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Jody Koenig KellasDepartment of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Elizabeth VagnoniEstranged Stories
Pages 130-140 | Published online: 02 Apr 2015

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Christian Fang & Anne-Rigt Poortman. (2023) Whom do married and divorced parents consider kin?. European Societies 25:4, pages 511-538.
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