Choices, challenges, and tensions: Perspectives of lesbian prospective adoptive parents

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 33-64

  Goldberg, Abbie E ^a   Downing, Jordan B ^a   Sauck, Christine ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Adoption agencies; Challenges; Disclosure; Laws; Lesbian

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149117757     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v10n02_02     Document Type: Article

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