Searching for harm: Same-Sex marriage and the well-being of children

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-101

  Joslin, Courtney G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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