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Direct linkHamilton, Laura; Cheng, Simon; Powell, Brian – American Sociological Review, 2007
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Heredity, Parents
