Pauline G. Boss, The Relationship of Psychological Father Presence, Wife's Personal Qualities and Wife/Family Dysfunction in Families of Missing Fathers, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug., 1980), pp. 541-549
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