Lesbian and gay parenting post-heterosexual divorce and separation

LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-20

  Tasker, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4556-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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