Donor-Shared Siblings or Genetic Strangers: New Families, Clans, and the Internet

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1129-1155

  Hertz, Rosanna ^a   Mattes, Jane ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

donor insemination; donor siblings; Internet; kinship; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960960965     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11404345     Document Type: Article

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