Mental health problems among single and partnered mothers
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Mental health among single and partnered parents in South Korea
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0933-7954,1433-9285
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0125-4