Predicting non-African American lesbian and heterosexual preadoptive couples' openness to adopting an African American child

Family Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-360

  Goldberg, Abbie E ^a   Smith, Julianna Z ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; African American; Lesbian; Multilevel modeling; Race; Transracial adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650828870     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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