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Substance-abusing fathers: descriptive, process and methodological perspectives.

Ross D Parke
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Ross D Parke. 2002. Substance-abusing fathers: descriptive, process and methodological perspectives.. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00234.x

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