Gay Men Choosing to Co-Parent with Heterosexual Women

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 449-474

  Erera, Pauline I ^a   Segal Engelchin, Dorit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

co parenting; fathering; gay fathers; gender relations; hetero gay families; queer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906214336     PISSN: 1550428X     EISSN: 15504298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1550428X.2013.858611     Document Type: Article

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