o identify the contribution of nurses to the nutrition research literature between 1970 and 1984, nursing and multidisciplinary research journals T were reviewed. A total of 104 nutrition research articles with nurses as first author or co-author were identified. More than two thirds of the articles have been published since 1980; only nine had been published prior to 1977. Of the articles, 55 ...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex–parented families. METHODS: Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study th...

PURPOSE To estimate the doses of radiation to organs of interest during treatment of childhood cancer for use in an epidemiologic study of possible heritable diseases, including birth defects, chromosomal abnormalities, cancer, stillbirth, and neonatal and premature death. METHODS AND MATERIALS The study population was composed of more than 25,000 patients with cancer in Denmark and the Unite...

THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN GENETICS, PROCREATIVE INTENT, AND PARENTAL CONDUCT IN DETERMINING LEGAL PARENTAGE Deborah Wald, Esq., San Francisco, U.S.A. Our communities are increasingly populated with children for whom legal parentage is unclear. The three primary factors influencing legislative and judicial determinations of legal parentage tend to be: genetics, procreative intent, and parental condu...

Megan Kirshbaum, Ph.D and Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D. Through the Looking Glass, 2198 Sixth Street, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94710. (800) 644-2666 (voice); (800) 804-1616 (TTY); [email protected]; www.lookingglass.org Original manuscript below was published in: Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2002, (pp. 65-80 in the original). The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com ...