Early and late stage adolescence: Adopted adolescents' attachment to their heterosexual and lesbian/gay parents

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 152-170

  Erich, Stephen ^a   Hall, Sharon K ^a   Kanenberg, Heather ^a   Case, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoptive family functioning; Attachment; Gay lesbian adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950786049     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926750903330462     Document Type: Article

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