'I can accept my child is transsexual but if I ever see him in a dress I'll hit him': Dilemmas in parenting a transgendered adolescent

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 377-397

  Wren, Bernadette ^a  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Coping; Parent; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MORALITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSSEXUALISM; TRANSVESTISM;

EID: 0036344402     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104502007003006     Document Type: Article

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