Lesbian and gay families: The changing and unsteady legal and social environment

Social Work Practice with Children and Families: A Family Health Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 165-182

  Kennedy, Robin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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