Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor, Harold W. Neighbors, Size of Informal Helper Network Mobilized during a Serious Personal Problem among Black Americans, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), pp. 667-676
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