Ambiguous loss after lesbian couples with children break up: A case for same-gender divorce

Family Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-183

  Allen, Katherine R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous loss; Autoethnography; Comother; Lesbian families; Same gender divorce

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947696205     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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