Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2016, Pages 301-322

  Powell, Brian ^a   Hamilton, Laura ^b   Manago, Bianca ^a   Cheng, Simon ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoptive parents; Interracial multiracial families; LGBT families; Nontraditional families; Older parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982840393     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074444     Document Type: Review

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