Adoption by Same-Sex Couples: The relationship between adoption worker and social work student sex-role beliefs and attitudes

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 29-56

  Spivey, Christina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward same sex couple adoptions; Sex role beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746534857     PISSN: 1550428X     EISSN: 15504298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J461v02n02_02     Document Type: Article

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