Volume 21 - Article 3 | Pages 65–74  

Relationships between men´s gender attitudes and fertility: Response to Puur et al.'s "Men’s childbearing desires and views of the male role in Europe at the dawn of the 21st century"

By Charles F. Westoff, Jenny Higgins

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