Becoming Lesbian Adoptive Parents: An Exploratory Study of Lesbian Adoptive, Lesbian Birth, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-43

  Shelley Sireci, Lynn M ^a   Ciano Boyce, Claudia ^a  

^a WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Assisted fertilization; Family; Homosexual parents; Lesbian mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937381130     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v06n01_04     Document Type: Article

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