What does it mean for youngsters to grow up in a lesbian family created by means of donor insemination?

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-252

  Vanfraussen, Katrien ^a   Ponjaert Kristoffersen, I ^a   Brewaeys, A ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD WELFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY LIFE; FATHER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERVIEW; LESBIAN; MALE; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TEACHER; WELLBEING;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PEER GROUP; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0036862988     PISSN: 02646838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0264683021000033165     Document Type: Article

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