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Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, Vickie M. Mays, Parents, Children, Siblings, In-Laws, and Non-Kin as Sources of Emergency Assistance to Black Americans, Family Relations, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul., 1988), pp. 298-304
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