Same-sex families

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-131

  Biblarz, Timothy J ^a   Carroll, Megan ^a   Burke, Nathaniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Family diversity; Gay; Gay aging; Gay fathers; Gay grandparents; Gay youth; Gender; Lesbian; Lesbian mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904174381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118374085.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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