‘Who is in Your Family?’ Italian Children with Non-heterosexual Parents Talk about Growing Up in a Non-conventional Household

Children and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 455-466

  Bosisio, Roberta ^a   Ronfani, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

children with homosexual parents; children's representation of family; disclosure with peers; homoparental families

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); ITALY; RECOGNITION;

EID: 84954285481     PISSN: 09510605     EISSN: 10990860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chso.12148     Document Type: Article

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