Contact With Grandparents Among Children Conceived Via Donor Insemination by Lesbian and Heterosexual Mothers

Parenting

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-76

  Fulcher, Megan ^a   Chan, Raymond W ^b   Raboy, Barbara ^c   Patterson, Charlotte J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NFO Migliara Kaplan   (United States)

^c The Sperm Bank of California   (United States)

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EID: 0038240099     PISSN: 15295192     EISSN: 15327922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327922PAR0201_4     Document Type: Article

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