Lesbian-mother families formed through donor insemination

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 21-37

  Bos, Henny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4556-2_2     Document Type: Chapter

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