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The parental backgrounds of British homosexual and heterosexual women were evaluated on the same questionnaires used with two similar United States samples. The level of adjustment of the subjects was not related to the parental background differences for the British groups. The consistent United States and British findings dealt with how the subjects perceived their parents rather than with how their parents acted toward them.
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Siegelman, M. Parental backgrounds of homosexual and heterosexual women: A cross-national replication. Arch Sex Behav 10, 371–378 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01565540
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