The Lesbian and Gay Family

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 340-355

  Weeks, Jeffrey ^a   Heaphy, Brian ^b   Donovan, Catherine ^c  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Friendship ethics; Gay family; Lesbian family; Non heterosexual families; Social acceptability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889461679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999004.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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