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Katherine R. Allen, Robert S. Pickett, Forgotten Streams in the Family Life Course: Utilization of Qualitative Retrospective Interviews in the Analysis of Lifelong Single Women's Family Careers, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Aug., 1987), pp. 517-526
Allen et al. (Sat,) studied this question.