Coming out with our children: Turning points facilitating lesbian parent discourse with their children about family identity

Communication Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-90

  Breshears, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Family discourse; Family identity; Lesbian parents; Turning points

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957687487     PISSN: 08934215     EISSN: 17451043     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2010.511398     Document Type: Article

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