Comarital mate‐sharing and family stabilityFootnote∗

Revision of a paper presented in the Family Action Section of the National Council on Family Relations Annual Meeting, November 4, 1972, Portland, Oregon. The authors would like to thank Roger Libby for commenting on an earlier version of the manuscript.

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