Making room for daddies: Male couples creating families through adoption

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 155-181

  Wells, Gregory ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative families; Gay adoptive fathers; Gay men; Heterosexism; Male couples; Prejudice; Transition to parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751500849     PISSN: 1550428X     EISSN: 15504298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1550428X.2011.537242     Document Type: Article

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